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To: michael97123 who wrote (47210)	5/24/2001 11:23:08 AM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 70976

Don't you people have a job? I'm concerned for this economy because everybody at work is reading SI and surfing the web. At least that's what was going on when I was a Dilbert.

To: michael97123 who wrote (47210)	5/24/2001 11:24:19 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

IBM links up with Seiko Epson on 300-mm-wafer venture By Jack Robertson EBN (05/24/01 10:13 a.m. EST) IBM Corp. and Seiko Epson Corp. today announced they will form a joint venture to expand IBM's existing fab in Yasu, Japan, to include a 300-mm-wafer facility using 0.13-micron processing. The new fab, slated to begin operation in 2003, is expected to involve more than $1 billion in investment capital. The joint venture fab will make logic chips for cell phones, handheld computers, and networking devices. An existing 200-mm-wafer plant, which once made DRAMs for IBM's internal use, now makes chips for the company's hard disk drives. Seiko Epson will use its share of the new fab output to expand into chips for telecommunications and set-top box markets. The plant would be IBM's second 300-mm-wafer fab, coming after the computer maker said it planned to build a similar fab at its East Fishkill, N.Y., complex.