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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (34524)	3/9/2000 10:03:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

TSMC's 8-Inch Wafer Capacity to Hit 32,000 in 2000 March 9, 2000 (TAIPEI) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s sixth 8-inch wafer plant, Taiwan's largest ever, has completed trial production. Its monthly capacity is expected to reach about 32,000 wafers by the end of December. During trial production, with only part of its production equipment in place, TSMC's sixth wafer plant produced 1,000 units a month. TSMC originally aimed at a monthly capacity of 60,000 units on full production, but has cut back its 8-inch production capacity at the sixth plant to transfer capacity to scale up production in its seventh and twelfth plants, both 12-inch wafer foundries. TSMC overtook China Steel and Acer Inc. to record the highest sales in Taiwan in January, and will probably lead the manufacturing sector for the rest of this year. Its unfulfilled orders have accumulated to more than 5 million units, 1.5 million units over available capacity. And its Tainan Science Park-based sixth plant, which will be finished ahead of schedule, is expected to contribute 30,000 to 32,000 units towards meeting orders by the end of December. Construction of a 12-inch production line in the sixth plant will start in the second half of the year. If trial production is successful, its capacity will be integrated with TSMC's existing seventh plant and TSMC affiliate Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp.'s production. If Acer Semiconductor's and Asian Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.'s production is also taken into account, Taiwan's consolidated wafer foundry capacity will reach 3.2 million units by the end of 2000, probably increasing to 4.6 million in 2001 and 5.5 million in 2002. (Commercial Times, Taiwan)