# 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.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2023-08-17
- Where: Chatham County, North Carolina, United States
- Value: $5.00B
- Jobs: 1,800
- Starts operating: Q3 2024
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: increase wafer production capacity by a factor of 10
- Products: silicon carbide wafers, 200-millimeter crystals
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [Wolfspeed](https://endata.com/companies/35100.md)

## Sources

- [newsobserver.com](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article278304543.html), 2023-08-17: "June quarter of next year, we would begin producing 200-millimeter crystals out of that facility"

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