Intel to Assemble, Test P4 Chips at Shanghai Plant, Report Says
Online staff -- Electronic News, 5/9/2002
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Intel Corp. is planning to set up facilities in Shanghai to assemble and test Pentium 4 chips, Reuters reported today. However, the chipmaker said it had no immediate plans to build a wafer fab in China.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel’s new facility would be completed by the end of this year, the news agency reported. Chips with "Made in China" stamps would be produced in the first half of 2003.
"What we are now seeing is assembly and test technology and that is taking wafers and cutting them into individual chips, assembling them and then testing them here," Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, told a news conference.
Intel currently makes chips in the United States and Ireland. They are then shipped to plants in the Philippines, Malaysia and Costa Rica for testing and assembling. Reuters quoted Barrett as saying he expected output at the Shanghai facility to eventually match the three other plants.
Intel spent $302 million on the Shanghai facility last September on top of an initial investment of $198 million, Reuters reported.
The Shanghai plant tests and assembles flash memory chips and there is also a production line to test and assemble i845 chipsets for Pentium 4 microprocessors based on 0.18 micron technology, Intel said.
Barrett was quoted as saying the company has no immediate plans to build a wafer fab in China. |
