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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (46408)	5/8/2001 8:35:11 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Beat you with this one, Brian. <ggg> Mike Tuesday May 8, 8:08 am Eastern Time Applied Materials to open Taiwan, S'pore centres HONG KONG, May 8 (Reuters) - Top U.S. semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials Inc (NasdaqNM:AMAT - news) said on Tuesday it had started construction of a new Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore and has opened a new clean-room manufacturing facility for semiconductor components in Taiwan. The Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore's Changi Business Park will incorporate a training centre where customers can learn to use Applied Materials' wafer processing equipment. The company has more than 500 employees in Singapore and Malaysia. In Taiwan, where the company has more than 830 employees, Applied Materials said its new clean-room facility was be part of a multi-phase manufacturing centre at Tainan. It said the facility is aimed at better support of customer needs for training, components and process capability in Taiwan by establishing a more complete supply chain for the local industry and extending high-technology development to southern Taiwan. Applied Materials did not say how much it was investing in the two Asian facilities. ``We are investing to better serve our customers in Asia, and throughout the world, to help them make the more powerful, profitable and affordable chips that are the engine of the Information Age,'' company chairman James Morgan said in the statement.