Joining forces: AMD and UMC to collaborate on 300mm wafer fabrication facility in Singapore.(Brief Article)

Electronic Business Asia, March, 2002 by Hall, Chris

AMD and UMC announced February 1 a comprehensive alliance under which the two companies will establish a joint venture to own and operate a state-of-the-art 300mm wafer fabrication facility in Singapore for high-volume production of PC processors and other logic products. AMD and UMC also announced plans to collaborate in the development of advanced process technologies for semiconductor logic products. The two companies separately announced a foundry agreement under which UMC will produce PC processors to augment AMD's Dresden Fab 30 production capacity for devices produced on 130-nanometer and smaller-geometry technologies.

AMD and UMC will form a joint venture known as AU Pte Ltd, to own and operate the Singapore facility. The two companies expect to begin...

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