Coatings specs key element to $325M, 430,000 sq. ft. Motorola Technology Center. (Application Advantage: Corrosion Control Volume IV)

Plant Engineering, February, 1992

To position itself for an expected worldwide boom in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, a division of Motorola Inc. and the largest U.S.-based producer of integrated circuits and discrete semiconductor devices for the merchant market, constructed a $ 325 million, 430,000 square foot complex on its 78-acre site in Chandler, Arizona.

The Chandler-based facility, called CH 2, houses R&D, semiconductor wafer fabrication, and support operations for the company's ASIC Division. It combines the full technology spectrum required to develop and manufacture advanced generations of integrated circuits in the same facility. Several hundred people, including scientists and technicians who are part of Motorola's...

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