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To: Jeffrey D who wrote (35431)	6/5/2000 10:52:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

Hyundai Electronics Aims to be One of World's Top-Three Foundries June 5, 2000 (SEOUL) -- Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. said it aims to become one of the world's top three foundry businesses by expanding its supply capability to 1.7 million 8-inch wafers per year by the end of 2001. The plan comes after the memory chip maker said it already secured major companies such as Toshiba Corp., ST Microelectronics and Conexant Systems Inc. as major customers. "We are going to modify two 8-inch memory lines to fit foundry purposes, and produce 50,000 wafers a month with circuit widths of 0.35 micron meters and 0.25 micron meters by the end of this year," said Huh Yum, director at the company's System IC Strategic Business Unit. Production lines will also include the 0.18 micron product around the end of next year. The foundry capability would be the world's third largest following Taiwan's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and United Microelectronics Corp. Hyundai Electronics said it will allot more than 16 percent of the 1.2 trillion won set aside for its semiconductor unit this year to the foundry and other nonmemory sectors. (1,129.65 won = US$1) The company hopes to earn US$700 million this year and US$1.3 billion next year from non-memory sales, increasing the non-memory part to 20 percent of total sales by 2003. Related story: Samsung Electronics to Boost Non-Memory Sales by 15 Pct. (Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea)