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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (78)	9/5/1998 3:31:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 105

Fujitsu abandons UK factory conversion plan, and goes with shutdown. No change in impact on DRAM since original conversion plan was announced, but will reduce overall future chip production capacity: A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT, 9/4/98 Fujitsu to close U.K. DRAM fab NEWCASTLE, England-- Fujitsu Ltd. said today it will close its U.K. fab here because of the global chip oversupply. Earlier this year, the Japanese firm said it was planning to switch the fab, which was making 16-megabit DRAMs, over to logic devices. However, it was decided to simply shut down the facility because Fujitsu could make the logic ICs at its Japanese fabs. The Fujitsu fab had a capacity to process 15,000 six-inch wafers a month. This is the latest blow to the U.K.'s chip ambitions, following Siemens Semiconductors' planned closing of its North Tyneside DRAM fab and the stalled megafab construction by Hyundai in Scotland and LG Semicon in Wales.