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Wolfspeed's $5B Chatham County silicon carbide factory to start production in 2024 · Endata

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Aug 17, 2023NEW FACILITYChatham County, North Carolina, United States

Wolfspeed's $5B Chatham County silicon carbide factory to start production in 2024

Wolfspeed's John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide in Chatham County, North Carolina, is under construction and will begin producing 200-millimeter crystals in the June quarter of 2024. The $5 billion facility will create 1,800 jobs by 2030.

Value

$5.00B

Jobs

1,800

Starts operating

Q3 2024

Status

Under construction

Capacity

increase wafer production capacity by a factor of 10

Productssilicon carbide wafers200-millimeter crystals

CompaniesWolfspeed

Sectors#Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics

“June quarter of next year, we would begin producing 200-millimeter crystals out of that facility”newsobserver.com

1 source
newsobserver.comWolfspeed says Chatham NC factory to begin production in 2024 | Raleigh News & ObserverBrian GordonAug 17, 2023

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Mar 19, 2024NEW FACILITYChatham County, North Carolina, United States$5.00B1,800 jobsops 2024
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Jan 15, 2024CONTRACT$800.0M
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Jul 7, 2023CONTRACT$2.00B
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