Intel breaks ground on $2.5 billion chip plant in China
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(InfoWorld) - Intel broke ground on aÂ new $2.5 billion chip plantÂ in the northeast China city of Dalian on Saturday, with production expected to begin in 2010. The chip plant, called Fab 68, will make chipsets, not microprocessors, when it begins production. It will use 90-nanometer process technology, not the more advanced 45nm or 65nm processes used elsewhere. Intel's investment in Dalian, a port city that hosted the latest session of theÂ World Economic ForumÂ last week, is one of the largest by a foreign corporation in northeastern China, an area that has been hit particularly hard by a transition away from heavy industry in China's economy. Dalian itself has fared somewhat better than neighboring inland cities. The city is a technology hub, hosting some of the country's top software outsourcing firms. Â
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The glass-encased room inside Intel Corp.&#039;s microchip factory here, with its shiny, metallic surfaces and frigid air, is a world away from the blistering sun and brown earth outside. An army of robots suspended from the vast ceiling glide from one refrigerator-sized machine to the next. Their cargo: thousands of 12-inch silicon platters that form the raw material for Intel&#039;s most sophisticated computer microprocessor to date.
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Sydney, Australia, 25 October, 2004 - Intel Corporation today announced it has deployed a campus-wide broadband and wireless communications network within Chinaâs Wolong Nature Reserve to aid researchers in the study, care and preservation of the
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Intel Corp. , the world's biggest computer-chip maker, said it is reorganizing into five business units from two to speed product introductions.
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The Intel Corporation has received approval to build a $2.5 billion chip plant in China amid the countryâs booming demand for chips used in personal computers and cellphones. The factory is planned for the northeastern city of Dalian, according to the cabinetâs National Development and Reform Commission, the countryâs top economic planning agency. Intel officials in Beijing and at the company headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., declined to comment, saying no formal announcement had been made.
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Late yesterday afternoon, Intel announced it plans to invest as much as $1.5 billion in the retooling of its Fab 11X production site in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, so that it can produce 45-nanometer CPUs with its newly announced high-K + metal-gate transistor refinement technique during the second half of next year.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD.N,   the world's number two maker of microchips for personal   computers, has sealed a deal to 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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Intel is one of only two multinational semiconductor companies to announce that it is evaluating setting up a fab in India. The other, Cypress Semiconductor announced earlier this year that it was considering
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Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the launch of China's first Energy Competency Center (ECC), a joint effort by IBM and Intel, at a press conference at the IBM China Business Innovation Center (CBIC), located in the Beijing Shangdi Information Industry Base.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. has made new investments in five companies developing technologies that play into the chip maker's vision of a merged personal computer and consumer electronics industry, something Intel calls the digital home.
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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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CHIP GIANT Intel is making a concerted attempt to push the Linux OS in China and India, countries with citizens numbering over two billion.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China&#39;s biggest supplier of made-to-order chips, said its factory capacity will rise by more than half in the second half as the company brings more plants on line.
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Intel Corp. will announce today that it has reached a significant milestone in manufacturing computer chips at ever-smaller levels.
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Infineon, the German maker of computer chips, said it planned to invest one billion dollars (750 million euros) in building a new production plant in Kulim High Tech Park, Malaysia.
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Intel is making a big push to help personal computer makers in China and India offer the Linux operating system on machines powered by the company's chips.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan  - A Taiwan government committee on  Monday gave the green light to the island's top two memory chip  makers, Powerchip  and ProMOS , to set up  plants in China, local media reported.