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To: Scotsman who wrote (2887)	1/6/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: hcm1943	Respond to of 4697

FYI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01/06 9:56A (DJ) Applied Materials To Strengthen Japan Wafer Development Story 1508 (AMAT, I/SEM, N/DJN, N/DJWI, N/NIK, N/NJR, N/WEI, M/TEC, P/DAA...) TOKYO (Nikkei)--Applied Materials Inc. plans to expand its technology center in Narita, Chiba Prefecture by 200% in the second half of 1998. The U.S. firm will construct facilities to develop and test manufacturing equipment for 300mm silicone wafers, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports in its Wednesday morning edition. The world's largest maker of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment expects demand from Japanese chipmakers to increase sharply when 300mm wafers become the industry standard by 1999. Applied Materials plans to acquire 50,000 sq. meters of land adjacent to the technology center of Applied Materials Japan Inc., construct facilities during 1998 and start operations in 1999. The facilities will likely house as many as 25 devices for testing wafer-processing equipment, making it one of the world's largest such centers. Investment is calculated to exceed 20 billion yen. Applied Materials posted sales in Japan of about 100 billion yen in 1997. It hopes to double that figure in 2000. (END) DOW JONES NEWS 01-06-98 09:56 AM Additional Codes (P/DCO, P/DSE, R/JA, R/US, R/ASI, R/CA, R/FE, R/NME, R/PRM, R/USW)