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To: Ian Davidson who wrote (14511)1/12/1998 8:24:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 70976
 
infobeat.com

Excerpt regarding 300mm:
The 50-50 joint venture in the eastern German city of
Dresden will get more than 300 million marks in state andfederal aid.
It is to focus on mass production of semiconductors on
300-millimetre wafers instead of the 200-millimetre wafers inuse today.
snip

. "To be the first to do this would mean a great competitive
advantage," Siemens chief executive Heinrich von Pierer said.