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To: Brian1970 who wrote (17213)	3/9/1999 1:41:00 AM
From: denni	Respond to of 93625

from the intel thread: To: james d brady (75833 ) From: Paul Engel Tuesday, Mar 9 1999 1:36AM ET Reply # of 75836 Jim & Intel Investors - Intel may be "negotiating" with TSMC for some type of wafer foundry business. TSMC - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing - has several 8 inch wafer fabs in Taiwan and one in Camus, Washington - with an assortment of advanced DRAM, Flash and logic processes down to 0.25 micron - and soon, 0.18 micron minimum feature sizes. Here is the article referencing "talks" between Intel & TSMC. Paul {=======================} TSMC confirms talks with Intel By Jack Robertson, Electronic Buyers' News Mar 8, 1999 (1:01 PM) URL: ebnews.com Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) today confirmed that it had "informal" contact with Intel Corp. about making an unspecified device for the chipmaker. Industry sources say a deal between the two companies would likely involve TSMC making Direct Rambus DRAMs either for Intel or other memory makers. A TSMC spokesman said no formal discussions have resulted, while an Intel spokesman declined to comment. Taiwan foundries have been qualifying themselves with Intel and Rambus Inc., Mountain View, Calif., for potential orders in a projected production rampup for the next generation wideband memory chip. The kickoff for higher speed Intel processors and chipsets and Direct RDRAMs has slipped at least three months to the end of the third quarter this year. One reported reason is concern over large scale availability of the new memory chip, which requires chip makers to invest heavily in a wide array of new production equipment and testers. {===================} ------