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To: advocatedevil who wrote (415)	11/10/2001 10:29:45 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 25522

AMD , Taiwan's UMC plan chip plant-newspaper TAIPEI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc of the United States was considering building a second 12-inch wafer fabrication plant with Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) , a local newspaper said on Saturday. The Chinese-language Economic Daily News said AMD, Intel's (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) chief competitor in the market for microprocessors, gave no details, such as the location of the plant. But it said AMD plans to outsource production of its high-end processor Athlon and Athlon XP to UMC, the world's second largest contract chipmaker, and plans to book capacity of a fab from UMC. UMC officials were not available for comment on Saturday. AMD, based in Sunnycale, California, said at a financial meeting for analysts on Thursday that it would -- for the first time -- outsource processor production to a custom chip-making company. But it did not disclose the name of the plant, or foundry. On Friday, shares of UMC fell T$0.30 or 0.86 percent to close at T$34.70, while the wider TAIEX (^TWII - news) slipped 0.27 percent. (US$ equals T$34.5)