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To: Doug B. who wrote (33175)	11/14/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Henry Eichorszt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Winbond Electronics Corp., one of the world's largest makers of computer memory chips, is planning to join Toshiba Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. to build a 12- inch wafer plant, raising their combined market share to 20 percent from 15 percent worldwide, the Economic Daily News reported quoting unnamed Winbond officials. That would intensify rivalry with Micron Technology Inc. and Samsung Electronics, the paper said. The planned factory would develop the 0.13 micron technology and reach mass production in 2002, it said. Winbond's sales in October jumped 142 percent on year to NT$3.46 billion ($109 million), an all-tim