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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Paul V. who wrote (20856)6/26/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Ian@SI  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Applied Materials To Shelve Japan Technology
Center
June 26, 1998 Source: Nikkei America

Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO
(Nikkei)--Amid an uncertain outlook for the chip market, Applied
Materials Inc., a leading U.S. maker of
semiconductor-manufacturing equipment, has decided to delay
for over a year the opening of a planned
technology-development center in Chiba Prefecture.

The development center, originally scheduled to begin operation
in summer 1999, will not open until at least the autumn of the
year 2000.

Applied Materials had planned to triple the size of a plant site
in Narita and set up development and testing lines for
chip-production equipment using 300mm wafers.

But there will not be strong demand for 300mm-wafer
equipment for some time, the company now projects, as many
semiconductor makers are postponing investment in such
facilities. A mass-production plant using 300mm wafers
requires investing as much as 180 billion yen.

"With circuit architecture increasingly crowded, it might be
more profitable to mass-produce chips from 200mm wafers,"
says an official at Toshiba Corp. (6502).

The introduction of 300mm wafers, which until last year was
expected in 1999 or 2000, now looks likely to be delayed until
around 2002.
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