Mark LaPedus
EE Times
(06/04/2007)

SAN JOSE, Calif. ? The Fab Owners Association (FOA) has announced the formation of a semiconductor group purchasing organization.

The organization, called the FOA Purchasing Partners Inc. (PPI), will be the official group purchasing organization of the FOA and its device maker members. It will provide procurement services, including aggregation of demand, contract negotiations and contract management for semiconductor manufacturing consumables.

L.T. Guttadauro, FOA executive director will also serve as president of PPI. "Our expectation is to add additional preferred vendors to our current list, providing our device maker members with cost savings well beyond what single members may be achieving today," Guttadauro said in a statement.

The FOA's device maker members are the following companies: AMI Semiconductor, Austriamicrosystems AG, Avago Technologies, Cypress Semiconductor, Delphi Microelectronics Center, Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor, International Rectifier, Intersil, Jazz Semiconductor, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Micrel Semiconductor, Microchip Technology, NXP, ON Semiconductor, Skyworks Solutions, Spansion, and X-FAB.