Equipment Maintenance Technicians, facility Maintenance Technicians and chemical Ops, fear not. Worst case scenario you’ll be kept around and needed to decommission the equipment should the Fab get shuttered. Even in downturn periods, you’ll be needed to maintain idle tooling, run R&D swaps. In fact, you will
most likely go back to your roots and do preventative maintenance tasks when things get real slow. If Global is shortsighted enough to cut the folks that actually keep the equipment running, they can pay double for you when you come back on-site as vendors.
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I am hearing some plan to shut down the tool permanently if warm shut down does not help in Q1. All depends on wafer inventory improvement status. AMD and QCOM will stop order in Q1.
This is true. I’ll start worrying when they begin idling equipment.
It'd be a real shame for these here hot levels to take 4 hours....