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To: StanX Long who wrote (59840)2/1/2002 2:05:21 AM
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AMD, UMC form 300-mm foundry venture in Singapore

Manufacturing pact aimed at producing PC processors and logic ICs with 65-nm technology by 2005

Semiconductor Business News
(01/31/02 17:28 p.m. EST)

siliconstrategies.com

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) of Taiwan today announced an alliance to establish a joint 300-mm wafer foundry venture in Singapore for high-volume production of PC processors and other logic products.

The two companies also announced a separate foundry agreement under which UMC will produce PC processors for AMD. The foundry agreement is aimed at augmenting capacity at AMD's Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, with additional production of products at the 130-nn (0.13-micron) technology node and below. AMD said it expects to obtain its first 0.13-micron processors from UMC's existing fabs in Taiwan by the end of this year.
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