DRESDEN, Germany — Hundreds of workers are scurrying through Robert Bosch's newly opened microchip factory here now, hurrying to turn out more chips to a world that's starving for the tiny things.
The newly trained employees are wearing hair nets, gloves, lab coats, disposable booties and face masks, all intended to keep every speck of contaminant off every chip. And by year's end there will be still more workers on the job, working in the eerie yellow light of the new hyper-clean plant that Bosch spent $1 billion to build.
Bosch Chairman Stefan Hartung said operations at Dresden were accelerated to meet the situation.