News/Events Investors Career Tools My X-FAB Contact Search ABOUT US MARKETS TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING DESIGN SUPPORT A new home for your products Outsourcing Solutions Foundries typically provide process technologies and design environments for customers to develop their products in those technologies. However, there might be situations where customers already have existing products that need a new home for various reasons. These often result in very specific approaches to meet that need. X-FAB is your trusted partner for such “outsourcing” cases, which we distinguish from our “ordinary” foundry business. For over 20 years, we have been satisfying our customers’ need to outsource single products, whole product portfolios or even complete productions. To this end, we offer various engagement models on how to organize the outsourcing in practice. Products might need a new home because: There is a need for a second source for strategic products. Internal capacities are required for other products. Cyclical product demand creates a financial burden for the internal fab. Internal fabs do not (or no longer) offer the cost structure required to compete in the market. The respective internal fab is planned for closure. Integrated device manufacturers (IDM) want to become fabless. How does it work? Existing customer products are transferred together with the corresponding process technology to one of our facilities. We provide foundry services to the product owner or their customers. Why X-FAB? X-FAB offers internal second sourcing for most of its technology platforms. X-FAB enables the outsourcing of entire product portfolios. X-FAB is an experienced partner supporting a variety of “fab-light” or fabless strategies. X-FAB has a track record of over 60 successful technology transfers, including more than 30 customer-specific process installations in the past 20 years. Outsourcing Scenarios Typical scenarios for outsourcing products to a foundry Need for a second source Very often end customers require dual sourcing for supply security reasons, typically from different geographical regions. ... more Reassignment of internal capacity Whenever other, more strategic products demand larger capacities, less strategic products or products with limited volume or residual life time ... more Flexibility in capacity management When extreme demand fluctuations of certain products create significant financial risks for a fab, a foundry offers the flexibility to adjust production accordingly. ... more Unsatisfactory internal cost structure Internal fabs, especially those not or no longer fully utilized, can create product costs that no longer allow being competitive ... more Planned fab closure Economic or technical reasons can lead to a situation where the economic life of a fab ends and the fab can no longer be operated profitably. ... more Going fabless While insufficient utilization and technology migration to smaller feature sizes might be two reasons for a fab closure, a complete change of business model from an IDM to a fabless ... more Engagement Models Potential engagement models for outsourcing Product transfer An existing product including the corresponding customer process technology is transferred to one of our facilities. Transfer of tools or tool set Single existing tools or complete tool sets can be transferred from a customer fab to one of our facilities, either as consigned tools or sold tools. This applies in particular if specific capabilities required to manufacture the transferred product are not available in our fab. Investment into captive capacity Outsourcing customers can secure capacity at X-FAB through investment into their “own” tools. Fab transfer Under certain circumstances, we might consider the option of taking over the existing customer fab rather than transferring products and processes to one of our facilities. Product porting Existing products are redesigned using our open-platform process technologies and thus “ported” to a process available at X-FAB. This saves time compared to a complete product transfer requiring a custom technology transfer. Capabilities We provide a total manufacturing capacity of more than 1 million 200 mm-equivalent wafers per year. 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Our offer includes: Regular cross-site transfers to enable double sourcing for X-FAB corporate and customer-specific process technologies Process technology transfer management according to ISO 9000 and QS9000 standards Staff of more than 450 highly qualified engineers for process development, improvement and quality assurance More than 60 successful technology transfers, incl. more than 30 customer-specific process technology installations in the past 20 years Proven track record for automotive certified production, including: ISO TS 16949 certification for all sites APQP/PPAP support, 8D reports and failure analysis support Cpk-monitored PCM parameter testing (Cpk target ≥ 1.67) Most extensive PCM test coverage in the industry Automated outgoing inspection (AVI) for volume production—all lots, all wafers, all dies AVI electronic wafer map available for customer purpose 20 years of record storage and traceability Contact For more information, please contact us: NAME* E-MAIL* MESSAGE* By submitting the form you agree to our privacy policy. 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