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To: Teri Skogerboe who wrote (17692)	3/13/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) of 70976

Here's a story to give some of the bears something to lose sleep over... techweb.cmp.com ... Intel Corp., the chip industry's $25 billion gorilla, finally tossed its hat in the 300-mm ring by confirming that it had broken ground for a $1.5 billion 12-inch wafer fab in Hillsboro, Ore. When it is equipped in 2000, the facility initially will be used for process development. Two years later the chip giant plans to convert the 300-mm fab to a volume production operation and start turning out its next-generation microprocessors using 0.13-micron process technology, according to Intel officials in Santa Clara. On the heels of Intel's announcement, fab equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. confirmed that it had received a large, multi-technology order for 300-mm production tools to equip a $595-million pilot line planned by Siemens A.G. and Motorola Inc. in Dresden, Germany [Semiconductor Business News, 2/98, p. 28]. ...

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