10 Challenges Semiconductor Fabs Can Transform into Business Opportunities

Driven primarily by rapid industry growth worldwide, the semiconductor fabrication industry faces a broad range of significant business challenges. The challenges include the need to achieve sustainability goals, improve power reliability, enhance cybersecurity, accelerate time to market, mitigate supply chain issues, reduce energy costs, improve operational efficiency, optimize equipment maintenance, attract/retain a high-quality workforce, and empower the workforce.

This reference guide explains how fabs can overcome these ten challenges and transform them into business opportunities, as well as demonstrates via specific use cases how leading practices enable semiconductor fabs to enhance global competitiveness. The guide describes each of the ten use cases in terms of its drivers or key challenge areas, leading practices to turn the challenge into an opportunity, and a sample case study.