Saturday November 10, 12:23 PM
AMD, Taiwan's UMC plan chip plant-newspaper
sg.biz.yahoo.com
TAIPEI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc of the United States was considering building a second 12-inch wafer fabrication plant with Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp
(UMC) <2303.TW>, a local newspaper said on Saturday.
The Chinese-language Economic Daily News said AMD, Intel's
chief competitor in the market for microprocessors, gave no details, such as the location of the plant.
But it said AMD plans to outsource production of its high-end processor Athlon and Athlon XP to UMC, the world's second largest contract chipmaker, and plans to book capacity of a fab from UMC.
UMC officials were not available for comment on Saturday.
AMD, based in Sunnycale, California, said at a financial meeting for analysts on Thursday that it would -- for the first time -- outsource processor production to a custom chip-making company.
But it did not disclose the name of the plant, or foundry.
On Friday, shares of UMC fell T$0.30 or 0.86 percent to close at T$34.70, while the wider TAIEX <.TWII> slipped 0.27 percent.
(US$=T$34.5) |
