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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (36919)	8/21/2000 1:22:36 PM
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Intel expands Shanghai chip-assembly plant by five times Electronic Buyers' News (08/21/00, 01:18:46 PM EDT) SHANGHAI -- Intel Corp. today announced it will expand its flash memory chip assembly and testing site here to 56,000 square meters (over 183,700 square feet)--which is nearly five times the size of an existing facility. The expansion is Phase 2 of Intel's site in the Pudong industrial zone here, and it's expected to open for production in August 2001. Intel decided to expand the five-year-old site to keep up with market growth, said S.H. Wong, general manager of Intel's Assembly & Testing Manufacturing Group. Because the Intel assembly plant is located in a free trade zone, finished chips must be exported from the country, although sources said many of the ICs are sent to Hong Kong and then re-imported back into China. The expansion project will increase the site's manufacturing floor space from 3,500 to 20,500 square meters and add three new facilities: a production plant, a warehouse, and an office building. Construction is set to begin this month. The site is also hiring nearly 800 new employees, and by 2004, it will have a workforce of 3,000. The Shanghai site is Intel's first manufacturing site in China and the company's fourth final assembly and testing location in the world. Presently, the Shanghai plant performs final packaging and testing of flash memories. The expansion will enable Intel to increase flash capacity as well as produce other chip products at the site in the future. --Jack Robertson