100 fabs taken out of production in the last decade

100 fabs have been closed or repurposed in the last decade, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows the number of fabs closed by geographic region while Figure 2 shows a distribution of those fabs by wafer size and year. Figure 1 Japan and North America, have accounted for most of the wafer fab closures since 2009.  ...

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