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Facts & figures
• Worldwide sites
• Fabs
• Assembly and test facilities
• Miscellaneous facts
• Process technologies
• Statistics
• Market position
Philips has been involved with discrete semiconductors almost since they were first
developed, in 1947, with production of our first discrete semiconductors starting back in 1953.
Since this dawn of the electronics age, there has been an explosion in the number and types of
discretes and since then, Philips has grown into one of only a handful of truly world-class
discrete semiconductor manufacturers.
Fabs:
| Location |
Started |
Production area (m2) |
Max. wafers out/month |
Products |
| Hamburg, Germany |
1953 |
2,550 |
24,000 |
Bipolar transistors, diodes and sensors |
| Hazel Grove, England |
1967 |
31,200 |
56,000 |
High voltage bipolar and MOS power transistors, rectifiers, thyristors/triacs |
| Nijmegen |
1953 |
3,000 |
Mixed output |
RF discretes: RF power transistors and modules, CATV modules, wideband transistors, FETs. Small signal diodes |
| Stadskanaal, The Netherlands |
1975 |
2,800 |
70,000 |
Medium power and high voltage rectifiers |
Assembly and test facilities:
| Location |
Started |
Production area (m2) |
Output per annum (bn) |
Products |
| EDL, Hong Kong |
1969 |
23,000 |
10 |
Small signal plastic encapsulated transistors and diodes |
| PSPI, Cabuyao, The Philippines |
1983 |
30,000 |
5 |
Power transistors, modules, RF transistors, small signal diodes |
| SMP Seremban, Malaysia (joint venture) |
1994 |
8,400 |
2.25 |
Small signal plastic encapsulated SMD transistors and diodes |
| Stadskanaal, The Netherlands |
1958 |
10,000 |
3.5 |
Medium power, high voltage and small signal diodes |
Miscellaneous facts:
- Three factories with BIM (Breakthrough-In-Manufacturing) lines: Hong Kong, Manila and Seremban.
- Four regional sales networks (North America,
Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan/Korea),
with over 100 offices in different countries covering the entire globe
- All factories are qualified to ISO9000; Philips is the only discrete semiconductor supplier in the world to
win Ford's TQE quality award; some sites now qualified to QS9000 and ISO14001.
- TrenchMOS: a relatively new process delivering extremely low RDS(on)
values and today's highest current rating/mm2 of silicon, with over 100 devices already in production.
- Double polysilicon: a unique process for RF applications offering
transition frequencies well in excess of 20 GHz, exceptional performance comparable to GaAs at less cost.
- Enhanced double polysilicon process includes on-chip inductance
loops, capacitors and resistors, to create Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits which dramatically reduce
component count.
- LDMOS: a specialized process which delivers excellent RF power performance, especially for communications products.
- A state-of-the-art bipolar high-voltage power process technology.
- Total output more than 15 billion products in 1997
- Over 10,000 different products in production for RF,
Power and
General Applications
- General application discretes produced on BIM lines capable of producing,
among others, more than 1 million SOT23's per hour
- World's first 150 mm wafer fab for general application discretes
- World's smallest SMD packages (down to 1.5 mm x 0.75 mm)
- A global supplier serving all major electronic market segments
- A top five supplier worldwide since 1990
- Europe's No.1 supplier
- No. 2 in Asia-Pacific (excl. Japan)
- No. 3 in the USA
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