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Intel to upgrade Dalian plant

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Updated: 2007-06-21 11:14

DALIAN: Intel Corp is expected to conduct a major upgrade of its first
China chip manufacturing plant in Dalian by 2010, a senior city official
said.

The company will adopt 65-nanometer or 45-nanometer technology at the
plant, the official said.

"The plant will definitely adopt more advanced process technology, such
as the 65-nanometer or 45-nanometer technology in 2010," said Xia Deren,
mayor of Dalian, a seaport city of Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

"The company is also planning to build a world-class research and
development facility for chipset technology in the city."

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, said this March it would
invest $2.5 billion to build a 12-inch wafer fabrication plant in Dalian.
Using the 90-nanometer process technology, the facility is slated to
churn out 52,000 pieces of chipsets each month upon its completion in
2010.

Presently, Intel makes most of its advanced microprocessors on
65-nanometer technology and plans to begin the production on
next-generation 45-nanometer technology in the second half of this year.

Intel has been trying to cement its lead in China in recent years as the
nation is likely to become the world's largest information technology
products market by 2010.

The Dalian plant is the company's first wafer fabrication plant in Asia.
With a total investment of US$2.5 billion, the facility is one of China's
biggest-single foreign-financed projects.

"The plant will give a great boost to the development of Dalian's IT
industry, especially the integrated circuit manufacturing sector," Xia
said. "We have already seen a number of Intel's vendors considering
setting up operations in Dalian."

According to Xia, the chip manufacturing plant will attract more than 100
billion yuan in investment into the seaport city.

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