The UPW landscape is under transformation
Ultrapure water for AI-era semiconductor manufacturing.
UPW is now a direct yield lever
Ultrapure water systems are entering a new phase of risk and complexity as semiconductor manufacturing shifts toward AI-driven architectures and giga-facilities.
Advanced nodes, new materials, and tighter defect tolerances are increasing yield sensitivity to previously negligible contaminants - while fabs face mounting pressure to recycle water and operate independently from municipal supply.
- Advanced nodes and new chip architectures amplify sensitivity to particles, ions, and molecular precursors
- UPW recycling introduces new, poorly characterised yield risks
- Robots and AI are transforming UPW system operation
UPW performance is no longer a background infrastructure concern - it's a direct yield lever for next-generation fabs.
Who attends
Engineers from every facility discipline, and the manufacturers they serve.
Day 0 Workshop
Get hands-on before the technical program.
FoundationsTechnologies showcase & expert-led roundtables
Facilities Foundations: New UPW Frontiers
UPW purity has moved from parts-per-billion toward parts-per-quadrillion, advanced packaging is set to double pure-water consumption per die, and UPW is climbing toward 10% of total fab energy load. The gap between surface familiarity and genuine technical credibility is widening fast.
This expert-led roundtable is a practical guide through UPW system design, circularity principles, and the reality of escalating purity - led by practitioners designing these systems at scale. Reclaim is no longer theoretical: fabs are actively returning water to wafer quality, and the design principles that make it possible are learnable.
UPW Technical Agenda
Selected by the independent Technical Advisory Committee - system design, metrology, materials, recycling, and yield impact, grounded in real fab experience. Find data about innovations advancing the cutting edge.
Testimonials
Why UltraFacility
The only place UPW is treated as a yield problem.
- Curated by the people who run the fabs. Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung Austin Semiconductor and Micron shape the agenda around real facility challenges.
- 50+ non-commercial presentations, selected from 100+ abstracts by an independent committee. Data, not sales pitches.
- UPW, in context. Addressed alongside power, HVAC, chemicals and wastewater - the systems it actually depends on.
- Direct line to the specifiers. The one forum where UPW suppliers meet the engineers designing next-generation fab water systems.
Be in the room where UPW's hardest problems get solved
UltraFacility 2026 expands UPW content across the whole conference - curated discussions on 16 September and core technical sessions on 17-18 September.
UltraFacility 2026 · 16-18 September · Phoenix, Arizona