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May 30, 2006 12:56
17 yrs ago
English term

wafer starts

English to French Tech/Engineering Electronics / Elect Eng
The company will increase the capacity of existing 300-mm fab 36 by 25 percent to 25,000 monthly wafer starts.
By the end of next year, the new facility will produce 20,000 wafer starts a month at full capacity.

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GILLES MEUNIER May 30, 2006:

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tranches

est le terme utilisé en français pour wafer starts. En comparant des documents de fondeurs en anglais et en français ...
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agree RHELLER : salut, Adrien :-)
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Merci Rita ! Bonjour !
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English only: Wafer starts are the number of new silicon wafers that semiconductor makers start to transform into semiconductor devices, and capacity utilization, which is the proportion of available capacity that semiconductor makers are using.
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les pastilles (ou plaquettes) d'entree de chaine

"wafer" is also used. wafers d'entree de chaine
Example sentence:

In fab lingo, the wafer starts -- the number of wafers put into the beginning step --

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