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To: StanX Long who wrote (62417)	3/28/2002 12:43:25 AM
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Taiwanese, Germany firms to form microchip joint-venture: report -- Agence France Presse, 3/27/2002 e-insite.net Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corp. will team up with Germany-based Infineon Technologies AG for a 10 billion US dollar microchip joint venture on the island, it was reported Wednesday. Nanya, a unit of the petrochemical giant Formosa Plastics Group, and Infineon plan to form the 50-50 joint venture in June which would build two 12-inch semiconductor wafer plants in the northern county of Taoyuan, the Economic Daily News said. The two parties were soon expected to sign a memorandum of understanding for the tie-up, it added. Nanya spokesman Charles Kau said the compay was in talks with Infineon on cooperation but declined to elaborate. Each of the two plants would have a monthly capacity of 40,000 wafers, with the first expected to begin production of 256 megabit and 512 megabit dynamic random access memory chips using 0.11-micron trench technology in the first half of next year, the paper said. Nanya and Infineon would also jointly develop technology, it added.