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As a foundry company,PHENITEC specializes in manufacturing semiconductor
chips.
In the semiconductor industry, it used to be a common practice for large
companies to produce and supply products entirely independently, including
design, chip production (front-end process), packaging(back-end process),and
sales. Today, it is becoming increasingly common for semiconductorproduction
to be shared by multiple companies.
Chipmaking is extremely costly in terms of facilities and control systems.
Chipmakers are generally placed in a situation where their running costs
are almost constant irrespective of the rate of operation of facilities.
Even when the economy slows down, they are placed under an extremely difficult
financial environment. When the economy is booming, they are hesitant to
invest in new facilities unless they are certain of the future revenue.
As a result,they sometimes are unable to satisfy an increasing demand promptly.
Because the development and manufacture of semiconductor chips involves
a great amount of cost, there is a new trend towards "fabless"
companies, who specialize in design and sales and do not have their own
manufacturing facilities. The emergence of such companies has a positive
impact on foundry companies like us.
Under such a business environment, PHENITEC is expanding its foundry business
efficiently, through tie-ups with companies in and outside Japan, producing
a wide range of products from discrete semiconductors to various ICs.
PHENITEC's chip manufacture facilities include 4", 5" and 6"
lines, of which the 6" line started mass production in fiscal 2002.
We handle the entire process internally, from epitaxial growth to testing
and probing, satisfying customer needs using highly experienced human resources
and expertise.
We are a foundry specialist company that takes pride in stability and high
productivity as its greatest advantages,making continued efforts to reduce
cost, shorten lead time and improve product quality under the motto of
continual improvement.
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We established a wafer foundry business leading the industry, and have
been following our own path.
As a chipmaker, we place a greater emphasis on satisfying customers by
providing comprehensive foundry services, making the utmost use of expertise
in product design, process technologies and manufacture, thus simultaneously
realizing low cost and higt quality while minimizing investment, rather
than pursuing ever-advancing microfabrication by investing massively in
the development of processes and devices. Based on this policy, we intend
to be a supplier of continuously comprehensive foundry services, paying
close attention to next-generation requirements.
We supply a wide variety of products, including Bipolar Transistors, Diodes,
and ICs from our 4" wafer fabrication facilities, and Bipolar ICs,
CMOS Logic ICs, Power MOSFETs and Power-management Analog CMOS ICs from
our 5" and 6" wafer process lines.
The current minimum design rule that we can handle on a mass-production
base is 0.8μm.
On a prototype base, we have almost established 0.6μm process technologies.
We are working towards becoming able to handle 0.35μm.
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"Customer satisfaction" accurately describes the essence of our
service. As a company supplying semiconductor wafers and chips, we are
fully aware that it is essential to provide such products that meet our
customer's needs and also contribute to our customer's growth. In this
context, our working environment has to be bolstered by a robust quality
management system to accept customer needs in a flexible manner. Several
quality systems, including ISO/TS16949, have been certified and are being
maintained, which allows us to remain an enterprise which is trusted by
both our clients and society. It further allows us to maintain a reciprocal
relationship with our suppliers which is also to the benefit of our customers.
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As an ISO/TS16949 certified global supplier,
we make consistent efforts for quality improvement.
ISO/TS16949certified
ISO14001certified
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