RVM’s second fab, a 50,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to run wafers in 2025.
The company claims it will be the first pure-play MEMS foundry with 300mm capability.
“With Rogue Valley Microdevices’ investment in 300mm MEMS capability at our new Palm Bay, Florida fab, we’re poised to empower our customers with significant competitive advantages, facilitating their journey from initial concept to the successful commercialisation of their MEMS and sensor designs,” says founder and CEO Jessica Gomez pictured (right) with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
RVM is a full-service precision MEMS foundry that combines process modules with the engineering expertise to go from custom design to manufacturing.
Specializing in MEMS and sensors manufacturing—including microfluidics and lab-on-chip platforms, the comoany offers a flexible equipment set and the ability for customers to start with smaller batch sizes.
The company claims to maintain the broadest and most comprehensive set of wafer services commercially available—with over 50 unique dielectric and conductive thin films and all services performed in its own class 100 cleanroom.
Gomez founded the company in 2003 with her husband, Patrick Kayatta, who is an RVM VP and CTO.
Gomez told Fortune that they “mortgaged everything” and took on $70k of credit card debt to get RVM off the ground.
“It’s really hard to be successful at manufacturing,” said Gomez, “it’s a lot of work, you have to be willing to do a lot of work.”
Last year, Gomez was a Republican candidate for governor of Oregon but lost in the primary.
