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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (50847)	8/20/2001 3:40:45 PM
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China foundry begins to equip 8-inch fab By Mike Clendenin EE Times (08/20/01 11:47 a.m. EST) TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) is starting to move equipment into its fabrication facility in the Zhangjiang Science Park outside Shanghai in the hope of making it the country's first eight-inch wafer foundry. SMIC said it is on track for a November opening of the fab to produce a few thousand wafers per month by year's end, using a 0.25-micron process as its most advanced technology. The $1.4 billion first phase of the project includes two wafer fabs and a support fab, which will produce photo masks and handle metalization. At full capacity, the main fabs will be capable of churning out 45,000 wafers per month. SMIC is being closely watched because it is one of two advanced wafer foundries being built in China. Its upcoming rival, Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., is also hoping to turn out wafers this year.

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