Micron plans China plant
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MICRON Technology, the worldâs number two maker of computer memory chips, is planning to build its first plant in China by 2005.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD.N,   the world's number two maker of microchips for personal   computers, will supply China's second-largest PC maker with   chips, scoring its latest victory in a market share battle with   bigger rival Intel INTC.O.
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One of the world's largest DRAM makers plans to invest $525.3 million on two chip factories in Asia.
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Foxconn (Taiwan), computer manufacturer, will build a new plant for the LCD monitor and computer component manufacturing in Kutna Hory, Czech Republic. Investments should exceed CEK 3 bil. The plant should employ up to 5,000 people. It should be already opened in 2008.
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(InfoWorld) - Infineon Technologies has opened its first chip plant in Asia, a $1 billion facility located in Kulim, Malaysia. The Kulim plant will produce power and logic chips used in automotive and industrial applications, Infineon said. The factory will use 200-millimeter wafers to produce these chips, one generation behind the 300-millimeter wafers used by the most advanced chip plants currently in operation. The Kulim plant will have a monthly production capacity of 100,000 wafers and employ a staff of 1,700 when production reaches full capacity, Infineon said. The products that will be produced at Kulim include Infineon's CoolMOS and Smart-Power chips. CoolMOS chips are used in power supplies for PCs and servers as well as in mobile-phone battery chargers to improve power efficiency and reduce heat, Infineon said. The Smart-Power chips are used in automotive applications, finding their way into a range of systems, including anti-lock brakes and airbags.
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Infineon on Wednesday said it would invest $1bn in a new semiconductor plant in Malaysia as it stepped up production of chips used in automotive and industrial power applications.
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The chip maker said it would retool a factory in New Mexico to start making chips with advanced 45-nanometer-wide transistors in the second half of 2008.
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When Boise-based Micron Technology Inc. picked its Manassas plant to produce a new generation of memory chips, the decision was based on factors as distant as global technology prices and predictions about the market for iPods and cellphones.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ,  the world's number two maker of microchips for personal  computers, will supply China's second-largest PC maker with  chips, scoring its latest victory in a market share battle with  bigger rival Intel .
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China plans to build reactors on a scale and pace comparable to the peak of the United States' nuclear energy push in the 1970's.
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Infineon, a No.2 chip producing company in Europe, has decided to expand its automotive and industrial chip division by investing $1billion in a new plant in Malaysia.
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By Bloomberg News  Micron Technology Inc., the largest U.S. maker of computer- memory chips, agreed to acquire Avago Technologies' image sensor business for $53 million for the company's engineers.
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Infineon, Europe&#39;s second-largest chipmaker, yesterday announced that it would invest $1bn in a new plant in Malaysia in a move to boost its capacities for making chips used in the automotive industry.
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IBM on Thursday opened an expanded research center in China to bulk up its technology portfolio for midsize businesses worldwide. The SMB Innovation Center was added to the company&#39;s research lab in Beijing
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Science & environment: Chinese energy company to open chemical plant to make synthetic diesel
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Foundry partner gears up for second-generation 90nm Efficeons
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(InfoWorld) - In the most significant easing of investment regulations for Taiwan's technology industry to date, the island's government will allow two chip makers to build factories in China and one more to invest in a Chinese rival, a high level official said Tuesday. Memory chip makers Powerchip Semiconductor and ProMOS Technologies will both be allowed to build chip factories in China, while Advanced Semiconductor EngineeringÂ (ASE) will receive approvalÂ for a plan toÂ buy a low-end chip assembly companyÂ based in Shanghai. ASE is the world's largest chip assembly company. "An official announcement will be made on Wednesday," said Joseph Wu, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's official governing body for China relations. A group of government agencies agreed to the easing Monday during a committee meeting. The final step in making the decision formal is for the Taiwan Investment Commission, which is in charge of vetting China-bound investment applications, to give its stamp of approval and publicly announce the new measures. The easing is seen as a major breakthrough for Taiwan and China. For China, it could reinvigorate a chip industry that has slowed over the past few years as major chip makers such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) posted a string of money-losing quarters. It also represents a token of goodwill by Taiwan to political enemy China. Taiwan and China remain enemies after splitting in 1949 amid civil war. The island fears China could use chip technology to bolster its military capabilities against Taiwan. Despite the strained relationship and tough investment rules, China remains by far the favored destination for Taiwanese investment due to their shared language and culture, and China's lower costs and huge potential market. The formal announcement expected Wednesday will likely fall short of hopes held by Taiwanese chip makers. Companies have been lobbying the government for years to allow them to transfer 0.18 micron chip production technology to China, but such an opening will have to wait, Wu said. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has made a strong push on the 0.18 micron issue, in part because Chinese rivals such as SMIC are already using the technology, and are able to win over customers because of it. Taiwanese regulations currently only allow its chip makers to use 0.25 micron technology in China. ASE's board of directors approved a plan to last month to invest $60 million in Global Advanced Packaging Technology, a Shanghai company.