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To: Mark Duper who wrote (38001)	10/10/2000 10:06:47 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

IBM plans 300-mm fab for copper, SOI chips in N.Y. Semiconductor Business News (10/10/00, 09:45:08 AM EDT) EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.--IBM Corp. today announced plans to build the world's most advanced chip-making facility here, including a 300-mm wafer processing fab and production lines for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices as well as copper and low-k interconnects. The investment is set at $2.5 billion and part of a total $5 billion capital spending plan to support a major expansion of IBM's Microelectronics Division. According to IBM officials, the $2.5 billion capital investment project is the largest in the history of New York State. In addition to the New York facility, IBM said it is expanding chip-making capacity at its existing plants in Burlington, Vt., and Yasu, Japan. The $5 billion expansion package also includes investments in Altis Semiconductor, a joint venture between IBM and Infineon Technologies AG, located in Corbeil-Essonnes, France. IBM said it is also expanding organic and ceramic chip packaging operations worldwide. "The world of e-business is driving a massive build-out of the infrastructure of computing and communications," said Lou Gerstner, IBM chairman and chief executive officer. "That, in turn, drives demand for critical technical components like chips. Demand is white-hot in three critical segments -- chips for big servers, chips to power the explosion in Internet access devices and chips in the networking equipment that ties everything together." "Big Blue" said the new East Fishkill facility will combine for the first time IBM chip-making technologies for copper interconnects, low-k dielectrics, and SOI on 300mm (12-inch) wafers. IBM said it expects to be the first chip maker to mass produce semiconductors at line widths below 0.10 microns. The new facility is planned to begin operation in the second half of2002. When it is in full production in early 2003, the facility will add 1,000 new jobs to the area, said the company.