ERFURT, Germany, Oct 7, 2026 – X-FAB held a ceremony to mark the start of construction on a cleanroom at its Erfurt site, which will expand manufacturing capacity for microsystems and photonics. The Fab4Micro project is receiving €127.4 million in funding from Germany’s federal government and the state of Thuringia under the EU Chips Act.
X-FAB is developing the facility to support demand from automotive, industrial and medical markets. The project continues the Erfurt site’s transition into X-FAB’s microsystems hub and will support industrial-scale production of microsystems and photonics products.
“Today’s groundbreaking ceremony marks an important milestone for X-FAB and underscores our long-term commitment to innovation, growth, and supporting our customers worldwide,” said Dr. Gabriel Kittler, CEO of the Erfurt site.
The Fab4Micro project is funded by:
- German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag
- The Thuringian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Areas
Source: X-FAB
About X-FAB
X-FAB is a specialty semiconductor foundry headquartered in Tessenderlo-Ham, Belgium. Founded in 1992, the company manufactures wafers for analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices and provides design support and process technologies for customer chip development. Its work covers integrated circuits, MEMS, microsystems, photonics devices, silicon carbide devices and gallium nitride devices. X-FAB offers CMOS, SOI, photonics, microfluidics, sensor and high-voltage semiconductor processes. The company serves fabless semiconductor companies, original equipment manufacturers and integrated device manufacturers. Its customer industries include automotive, industrial and medical markets, with additional work in communications and consumer applications. X-FAB operates six wafer fabs in Germany, France, Malaysia and the United States. The company reported more than 400 customers worldwide.
