SILICON INCUBATOR STARTUP TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FACILITY LICENSE FEE
Silicon Incubator's infrastructure provides startup companies with experienced personnel and tools for discrete and integrated circuits, IC mask design, semiconductor process development and wafers fabrication of prototype and production.
Silicon Incubator offers a two tiers shared
facility business model. Silicon Incubator terms are extremely flexible.
TIER I IS FOR EARLY STARTUPS WITH UP TO 2 PROCESS
ENGINEERS WORKING IN THE WAFER FAB
Who is this program for?
-Any VC, Angel, Government or privately funded startup company that needs to
develop a new product that requires a new custom technology not available from
any other wafer foundry.
For how long?
-Minimum license programs are 24 months.
What is the monthly license fee?
-Monthly license fee starts from $35k*.
What is included in monthly license fee?
-Monthly license fee includes:
-access 24/7 to the office and wafer fab of one of customer's engineers or technical managers and
-40h/week access to the wafer fabrication facility of up to 2 of customer's
process engineers or technicians working in the fab and usage of all installed
wafer fab equipment as needed.
Silicon Incubator provides on site full time services (40h/week) of the wafer
fab manager in charge of facilities and equipment maintenance.
What is NOT included in monthly license fee?
-Cost of payroll and workers comp insurance for customer's own personnel
accessing the incubator's facility.
-Cost of materials, instruments and equipment specific to customer's application, including startup wafers,
chemicals, gases, custom tools, etc.
-Cost of shared utilities.
TIER II - FULL SERVICE FOR STARTUPS ALREADY IN PILOT OR
PREPRODUCTION PHASE
Tier II license fee of $75K*/ month includes everything as Tier I PLUS wafer fab full service support.
-Minimum duration of Tier II license programs is 3 years. Full service support includes 40h/week of services of a Diffusion and LPCVD, a Thin Film Deposition, Photolithography, Ion Implant, Plasma Etch and Stepper.
In addition certain chemicals, gases, Liquid Nitrogen, Photoresist and
ancillaries, shared utilities, all up to $5k/month are included. *)-Tier 1 and
Tier 2 programs detailed above are only examples and all terms and conditions
are deemed to be revised on case by case basis. For more information please
contact Silicon Incubator:
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