Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Communicant Semiconductor Technologies" in English language version.
Finally, in July, after the workforce had shrunk below 100, he lost his job, too.
In April, Communicant secured $325 million in private equity.
State lawmakers in December finally put an end to the factory when they rejected loan guarantees to cover 75 percent of the project's €1.3 billion cost sought by Communicant.
In February Intel announced an investment in a German company called Communicant Semiconductor Technologies, which is developing a silicon-germanium manufacturing facility.
However, well-known suppliers [of semiconductor manufacturing equipment] have been warned by new information coming from the competition in Dresden (Infineon is developing new production facilities there) they shouldn't negotiate new contracts with Communicant because federal-state-guarantees have not been granted. Communicant believes that a powerful lobby, reaching as far as the Federal Ministry of Economics, wants to prevent the building of the chip factory in Frankfurt.
IHP director Professor Abbas Ourmazd described this as the key technology for wireless Internet connections. ... Frankfurt and der Oder ... was a major technology center during the Communist era, housing a plant which employed 8,000 people.
Intel has identified the "outstanding technology" offered by local state-owned semiconductor research institute IHP as the factor that had attracted it to the project.
In what could become a test case for large companies seeking to escape Germany's high taxes and labor costs, Infineon Technologies AG is pursuing a plan to shift the chip maker's headquarters abroad.
The Munich-based spinoff makes a wide variety of chips for industrial equipment, cars and other applications.
