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To: FJB who wrote (4144)6/21/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 5867
 
Infineon to add a third 300-mm fab, this one at White Oak facility
By Jack Robertson
Semiconductor Business News
(06/21/00, 03:14:20 PM EDT)

WASHINGTON -- Infineon Technologies AG today confirmed that it is planning a third 300-mm DRAM fab at its White Oak, Va., site. The German chip maker is starting to construct a fab shell adjoining the existing 200-mm plant, but has not set a timetable on when to equip the building.

Jan Du Preez, vice president of memory products for Infineon's U.S. subsidiary, confirmed reports that the second-stage White Oak shell will be started shortly. "We have not yet decided when to equip the shell, but it is definitely planned to be a 300-mm fab. All our new DRAM fabs will be 300-mm," he said.

Infineon is building its first 300-mm production fab at its Dresden, Germany, site (see March 31 story).That facility is expected to start production in late 2001. The firm also this month confirmed reports it will join with its partner, Mosel-Vitelic Inc., in building a second 300-mm fab in Taiwan as part of the ProMOS joint venture.

The three slated 300-mm fabs so far puts Infineon far ahead of other DRAM rivals in committing to the new larger wafer plants. Each 300-mm wafer will yield 2.2 to 2.5 times the number of comparable die as existing 200-mm wafers.

Samsung Electronics Co. is building Line 11 as a 300-mm fab in Korea, and is expected to launch production late in 2001. NEC Corp. is building one fab shell in Japan and considering another in Roseville, Calif. Both of those could be equipped later as 300-mm facilities to make DRAMs for the new joint venture, NEC Hitachi Memory Inc.

Micron Technology Inc., the Boise, Idaho-based DRAM maker, has long had several fab shells at Lehi, Utah, slated to be equipped at a future time for 300-mm production of DRAMs.



To: FJB who wrote (4144)7/3/2000 6:39:21 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 5867
 
Still More Better than Expected Results as Industry Continues Boom Time

This time it is SST preannouncing record results for 2Q00.

SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) (Nasdaq:SSTI) today announced that it expects to report record results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2000.

Based on information available at this time, the company expects to report a revenue increase of greater than 50 percent over the first quarter of 2000 and an increase of greater than 300 percent over the second quarter a year ago. The company expects that it will report earnings per share for the second quarter of 2000 to be greater than $0.50.

semiconductorfabtech.com