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To: patrick tang who wrote (3877)	9/1/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 9582

USC currently offers state-of-the-art 0.25 um processes in both logic and memory on: DUV steppers(more than 10 sets) CMP(more than 20 heads)

To: patrick tang who wrote (3877)	9/1/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9582

Hitachi to merge U.S. units, cut jobs BRISBANE, Calif., Sept 1 (Reuters) - Electronics company Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it plans to merge two of its U.S. semiconductor units in a move that includes cutting 650 jobs, or about 4 percent of its U.S. workforce. The company said in a statement it plans to merge two Hitachi America units, Hitachi Semiconductor and Hitachi Micro Systems, into a new entity called Hitachi Semiconductor America Inc. The company also said it plans to idle its chip-making plant in Irving, Texas, immediately. The moves will result in cuts of 150 jobs in California and 500 positions in Irving, Texas. ''The global semiconductor business continues to be dramatically affected by over-capacity in memory chips,'' said Kosei Nomiya, who will be chairman of the new unit. The two units had employed about 1,000 workers. Hitachi America, a subsidiary of Japan's Hitachi Ltd., produces a wide vaiety of goods, including semiconductor products, computers, electronics as well as telecommunications and industrial products employing about 16,000 in the United States. The company said the decision to idle its Texas plant was in response to the protracted slump in the dynamic random access memory market. biz.yahoo.com