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To: DJBEINO who wrote (2363)	1/17/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: patrick tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9582

ALSC already did: their SRAMs chips, since spring if my memory serves my correct, have been made at Charter in Singapore. patrick tang

To: DJBEINO who wrote (2363)	1/19/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: yousef hashmi	Respond to of 9582

NEC To Postpone Making Chips From 12-inch Wafers TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's NEC said today it would postpone production of computer chips using 12-inch wafers to at least 1999/2000 because of high costs and a need for further research. NEC had planned to start trial production using 12-inch wafers, which can double the chip output of plants currently using eight-inch wafers, at its Sagamihara plant in Kanagawa Prefecture, outside Tokyo, in 1998/99, an NEC spokesman said. The company decided to postpone production for one year because the equipment needed to make 12-inch wafers was still too expensive and the company needed to improve its 12-inch wafer technology, the spokesman said. Using the larger wafers could cut chip-making costs by more than 30 percent from the current level -- but a plant capable of using 12-inch wafers for mass production could cost 150 billion yen or more, he said. The postponement of trial production would mean a one-year delay in the launch of mass production of chips using 12-inch wafers at an NEC plant in Kyushu, southern Japan, the spokesman said. He gave no details of the launch date originally planned.