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To: FJB who wrote (4343)	9/26/2000 12:10:12 PM
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TSMC forecasts 125% growth in foundry revenues this year Semiconductor Business News (09/26/00, 10:20:35 AM EDT) HSINCHU, Taiwan -- With demand for silicon foundry capacity going through the roof, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) here has raised its forecast for revenues in 2000 to NT$164.9 billion ($5.30 billion), which would be a 125.4% increase from NT$73.1 billion ($2.35 billion) in 1999. The world's largest pure-play silicon foundry company also estimated its net income for 2000 at NT$64.0 billion ($2.06 billion) vs. NT$24.6 billion ($790 million) in 1999. TSMC released the new sales and profit forecasts this month in compliance with Taiwan's guidelines following the company's acquisitions of Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (WSMC) and the TSMC-Acer Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. foundries. In the first eight months of 2000, TSMC has reported net sales of NT$96.0 billion ($3.01 billion), a 121.6% increase over NT$43.3 billion ($1.39 billion) in the same period last year. August's sales were up 129.3% to NT16.1 billion ($517 million) vs. $NT$7.0 billion ($225 million) in the month last year, said TSMC. TSMC's largest foundry rival--United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), also based in Hsinchu--has reported a 240.4% increase in sales to NT62.9 billion ($2.02 billion) in the first eight months of 2000, compared to NT$18.5 billion ($594 million) in the January-August period last year. In August, UMC posted a 290.3% increase in sales to NT$9.8 billion ($316 million) vs. NT$2.5 billion ($81 million) in August 1999.

To: FJB who wrote (4343)	10/4/2000 4:03:10 PM
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TI to pour more money into chipmaking plants By Bloomberg News October 4, 2000, 12:00 p.m. PT TOKYO--Texas Instruments plans to invest $2.8 billion to $3 billion in plants and equipment next year to boost the output of chips for mobile phones, according to reports. The Nihon Keizai newspaper cited comments from TI chief executive Thomas Engibous in an interview in Tokyo. The chipmaker, which plans to invest $2.8 billion on plant and equipment upgrades this year, will spend more money next year on several projects. These include plans to build a production line to handle larger wafers at a Dallas plant and to invest about $300 million in plants in Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, and Oita prefecture in Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, according to Engibous. The Dallas-based company will boost production of mobile phone processors and analog microchips because it expects demand for cellular phones to expand next year, when so-called next-generation mobile phones offering high-speed Internet access will be introduced, the newspaper said. Texas Instruments, whose chips power two-thirds of the world's mobile phones, last month scaled back its forecast for industry-wide handset sales this year from 435 million worldwide to between 400 million and 435 million. Copyright 2000, Bloomberg L.P. All rights reserved.