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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (36068)	7/26/2000 8:19:38 PM
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Bluetooth chip market to reach $5 billion by 2005, says report Semiconductor Business News (07/26/00, 04:47:23 PM EDT) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The shipment of systems with Bluetooth wireless connections will grow to 1.4 billion units by 2005 after the first products begin appearing on the market this year, predicted a new research report from Cahners In-Stat Group. "The earliest Bluetooth adopters will be high-end mobile phone and notebook PC business users," said analyst Joyce Putscher, director of In-Stat's Consumer & Converging Markets and Technologies Service. The research group said Bluetooth-enabled desktop PCs will debut in 2001 after the first mobile phones and notebook computers appear this fall. Chip shipments for Bluetooth wireless systems will pick up momentum in the second half of 2000, and by 2005, the semiconductor market opportunity will approach $5 billion, according to In-Stat.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (36068)	7/27/2000 9:07:41 AM
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Microchip buys Matsushita plant, sets production ramp in 2001 Semiconductor Business News (07/26/00, 05:32:57 PM EDT) PUYALLUP, Wash.--Microchip Technology Inc. today announced it has completed its $80 million purchase of a wafer-processing facility here from Matsushita Semiconductor Corp. of America. The facility will be used to increase the production of field-programmable microcontrollers, serial EEPROMs, microperipheral products and secure data chips, said Microchip, which is based in Chandler, Ariz. Microchip announced plans to buy the facility from Matsushita in late May. It expects the facility to produce ICs with $1.5 billion in annual sales once the fab is operating at full capacity. The installation of wafer fabrication equipment is now slated to begin in November, and volume production will start in August 2001.