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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (33986)	2/2/2000 11:35:00 AM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

INTC expanding into Colorado biz.yahoo.com Intel to buy Rockwell chip plant, to invest $1.5 bln SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb 2 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) plans to buy a chip making plant from Rockwell International Corp. (NYSE:ROK - news) and invest $1.5 billion in it, in a move Intel sees significantly boosting its short-term manufacturing capacity. Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, expects to begin manufacturing flash memory at the Colorado Springs, Colo. wafer fabrication facility by late this year. The facility is currently vacant. The company said it has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell, but did not disclose details of the agreement. ``This facility will give us the ability to rapidly add more manufacturing capacity in order to address our customers' growing demand for a wide variety of our products,' said Mike Splinter of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group. The Colorado Springs facility consists of two wafer ``fabs' and several support buildings. The first, a 268,000 square foot manufacturing and support facility, was built in the early 1980s and will be converted into a sort and test facility. The second was built in 1996 but never utilized. It is a 676,000 square foot facility that will be equipped to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. Intel plans to install its 0.18-micron manufacturing technology in the plant. The plant will result in the creation of more than a thousand new jobs in Colorado Springs, Intel said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Quotes and News: Intel Corp (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) Rockwell International Corp (NYSE:ROK - news) Related News Categories: US Market News

To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (33986)	2/2/2000 12:00:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Samsung Builds 1 Million-Sqm DRAM Complex Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is building a new semiconductor production complex on a 1,000,000-square-meter site in Hwasung-gun, Kyonggi province. The new facility, Line 10, is expected to strengthen Samsung's position as the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer and technology leader in flash memory. Initially, Line 10 will be dedicated for the production of 128Mb, 256Mb and Rambus DRAMs. A total of US$1.8 billion will be invested in the new line by the first quarter of 2001. The new line will be capable of processing 0.15 micro meters design rule. Capacity is expected to be 32,000 8-inch wafer starts per month. The first construction phase will be completed by the third quarter of 2000; when monthly wafer starts will total 16,000 Y W Lee, Samsung Semiconductor Business president and CEO, said the company's semiconductor operations will maintain a 6-month to one-year lead in the industry for new product development. "We will complete development of 0.12 micro meters processing technology within one year and the 0.10micro$B!!(Jmeters design rule by 2001. The increase in production capacity with Line 10 investment will strengthen Samsung's market-leading position in DRAMs and SRAMs. We will also emerge as the top company in the flash memory area," said Lee