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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (35093)	5/9/2000 6:16:00 PM
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TSMC Buys $7.2 Mln in Equipment From Applied Materials, Hissan By Chad Rademan Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the nation's largest computer chipmaker, said it bought a combined NT$220 million ($7.2 million) of equipment from Japan's Hissan Trading Co. and California-based Applied Materials Inc. In a statement to the stock exchange, TSMC said it bought NT$107 million from Applied Material, one of the world's biggest suppliers of wafer fabrication systems. TSMC also bought NT$113 million of production equipment from Hissan. TSMC's first quarter sales more than doubled to NT$28.3 billion amid rising demand for its ``foundry'' style process of manufacturing outsourced logic chips.