Bosch to Invest Additional 250 Million Euros in Chip Production Capacity

Bosch to Invest Additional 250 Million Euros in Chip Production Capacity
Technicians supervise operations at the new Bosch 300-millimeter wafer fab for silicon chips in Dresden, Germany, on May 31, 2021. Matthias Rietschel/Reuters
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BERLIN—Bosch is investing an additional 250 million euros ($282.50 million) in extending chip production facilities at its Reutlingen plant in Germany, the company said on Tuesday.

The Reutlingen site had previously been earmarked for 50 million euros of a total of 400 million that the supplier set aside last year for spending on chip production in 2022 across Reutlingen, Dresden, and a testing facility in Penang, Malaysia.

The largest part of that budget was allocated to expanding its 1-billion-euro Dresden factory producing 300-millimeter wafers, which the group inaugurated in June.

The extra capacity at Reutlingen will come into force in 2025, Bosch said in a statement.

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