El fabricante estadounidense de semiconductores Wolfspeed ha confirmado los planes previamente filtrados de construir una planta de semiconductores SiC en Sarre con el proveedor local ZF. La planta de obleas de 200 mm altamente automatizada ser\u00e1 la primera \"fab facility\" de la empresa en Europa y se espera que sea la m\u00e1s moderna de su clase.<\/p>\n
Wolfspeed y ZF hicieron el anuncio en un acto que se duplic\u00f3 para presentar la ubicaci\u00f3n. La nueva f\u00e1brica recuperar\u00e1 los terrenos de una antigua central el\u00e9ctrica de carb\u00f3n en la localidad de Ensdorf, en el Sarre. Este estado limita con Francia y Luxemburgo.<\/p>\n
La f\u00e1brica Wolfspeed forma parte del Proyecto Importante de Inter\u00e9s Com\u00fan Europeo (IPCEI) de Microelectr\u00f3nica y Tecnolog\u00edas de la Comunicaci\u00f3n. A\u00fan est\u00e1 pendiente de que la Comisi\u00f3n Europea apruebe su financiaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
Sin embargo, Wolfspeed parece contar con el apoyo del gobierno alem\u00e1n. El canciller Olaf Scholz y su vicecanciller y ministro de Econom\u00eda, Robert Habeck, se unieron in situ a la ministra-presidenta del Sarre, Anke Rehlinger.<\/p>\n
El apoyo pol\u00edtico puede deberse tambi\u00e9n al hecho de que est\u00e9 implicada una empresa alemana: ZF Friedrichshafen tiene la intenci\u00f3n de apoyar la nueva construcci\u00f3n realizando una \"inversi\u00f3n financiera considerable\" en el marco de una nueva asociaci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica, escribe Wolfspeed. La inversi\u00f3n no se cuantifica en t\u00e9rminos concretos; s\u00f3lo se habla de cientos de millones de d\u00f3lares a cambio de acciones ordinarias de Wolfspeed - ZF tendr\u00e1 as\u00ed una participaci\u00f3n minoritaria.<\/p>\n
Gracias a esta asociaci\u00f3n, Wolfspeed y ZF establecer\u00e1n un laboratorio de innovaci\u00f3n conjunto para impulsar los avances en la tecnolog\u00eda del carburo de silicio. El centro de I+D se centra en las innovaciones de los sistemas y dispositivos de carburo de silicio para satisfacer los requisitos espec\u00edficos de todos los segmentos de la movilidad. Sin embargo, se centrar\u00e1 en los turismos y los veh\u00edculos comerciales, agr\u00edcolas e industriales.<\/p>\n
\"Estas iniciativas son un paso significativo hacia el \u00e9xito de la transformaci\u00f3n industrial\", afirm\u00f3 Holger Klein, director general de ZF. \"Refuerzan la resistencia del suministro europeo y, simult\u00e1neamente, apoyan el Pacto Verde Europeo y los objetivos estrat\u00e9gicos para la D\u00e9cada Digital de Europa\".<\/p>\n
El proyecto \"aglutina importantes conocimientos t\u00e9cnicos en Europa y contribuye a la aplicaci\u00f3n del Pacto Verde Europeo al reducir el consumo de energ\u00eda y las emisiones de CO2\", a\u00f1adi\u00f3 la ministra-presidenta del Sarre, Anke Rehlinger. \"Estamos orgullosos de contar con Wolfspeed y de que nuestra regi\u00f3n desempe\u00f1e un papel tan vital en el avance de la innovaci\u00f3n en semiconductores de carburo de silicio\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El fabricante estadounidense de semiconductores Wolfspeed ha confirmado los planes previamente filtrados de construir una planta de semiconductores SiC en Sarre con el proveedor local ZF. La planta altamente automatizada de 200<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":186751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[27284,9961,17019,15585,11036,27357,10032,13946,7629,595],"class_list":["post-186773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-ensdorf","tag-germany","tag-ipcei","tag-saarland","tag-semiconductors","tag-sic","tag-subsidies","tag-suppliers","tag-wolfspeed","tag-zf"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"
Besides political support, ZF has been a decisive factor for Wolfspeed coming to Saarland. The automotive supplier has been present in the state for decades, has correspondingly good contacts with politics, and is the largest employer in the region. The new factory is expected to create 600 jobs, and Wolfspeed expects production to run up in Saarland in four years.<\/p>\n
ZF will primarily take a stake in the R&D Centre, and further cooperation partners are invited to participate and build an end-to-end European silicon carbide innovation network.<\/p>\n
“This new fab represents a big step forward for both Wolfspeed and our regional customers as we enhance the ecosystem for semiconductor production and innovation,” said Gregg Lowe, President and CEO of Wolfspeed. “This new facility will be crucial to supporting our expansion in a capacity-constrained industry that is growing very rapidly, especially across the EV marketplace. It was important for us to have a facility located in the heart of Europe, near many of our customers and partners, to foster collaboration on the next generation of Silicon Carbide technologies.”<\/p>\n
European clients for Wolfspeed semiconductors include Mercedes-Benz<\/a> for future EV platforms or Jaguar Land Rover<\/a> next-generation electric cars.<\/p>\n Internationally, the Saarland factory is part of Wolfspeed’s current $6.5 billion capacity expansion plan. This includes the opening of the company’s 200mm chip plant in Mohawk Valley in April 2022 and the construction of the John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide, a 180-acre silicon carbide feedstock facility in North Carolina, USA, which will expand the company’s current supply capacity by more than ten times.<\/p>\n SiC semiconductors generally have higher conductivity and enable higher switching frequencies compared to silicon chips. Only around half as much energy is lost if heat, which increases the range of electric cars. Since less heat is emitted and the SiC components can also be operated at higher temperatures, the power electronics cooling system can be smaller. This saves energy and reduces weight and costs thanks to the more compact cooling systems.<\/p>\n zf.com<\/a>, wolfspeed.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}