GlobalWafers MEMC St. Peters site
St. Peters, MO. Materials.
GlobalWafers, headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan
St. Peters 300mm SOI wafer facility
GlobalWafers subsidiary MEMC will produce 300mm SOI wafers in St. Peters, backed by a final CHIPS award and part of a roughly $4 billion two-state capex plan.
- Investment
- not stated
- Jobs
- 130
- Announced
- Jul 2024
- Target
- not stated
- Type
- Materials
- Process or product
- 300mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers
- Wafer size
- 300mm
- CHIPS Act funding
- $20M (final award)
Timeline
- Funding
Final CHIPS award of up to $406 million covering both GlobalWafers sites was finalized.
KXII - Funding
Commerce signed a preliminary memorandum of terms with GlobalWafers covering Sherman, TX and St. Peters, MO.
NIST CHIPS for America
Sources (4)
- GlobalWafers to spend additional $4 billion on US operations in Sherman, Texas Manufacturing Dive, May 16, 2025
- $406 million award for GlobalWafers finalized KXII, Dec 17, 2024
- CHIPS award: GlobalWafers / MEMC (St. Peters, MO), final award NIST CHIPS for America, Jul 24, 2024
- GlobalWafers preliminary memorandum of terms (July 2024) NIST CHIPS for America, Jul 17, 2024
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