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SGS-Thomson Microelectronics to Start Chip Production in Phoenix. (Originated from Arizona Republic)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 1994 by Webster, Guy
Apr. 15--SGS-Thomson Microelectronics will equip and staff a north Phoenix semiconductor plant that has stood unfinished for nine years, the European-based company said Thursday.
The plant is expected to create as many as 600 jobs in phases over more than one year. Phoenix was selected over a competing site in Texas.
SGS-Thomson will begin producing chips at its 280,000-square-foot facility at 10th Street and Bell Road within about a year, J.P. Rossomme, manager of communications, said Thursday.
One product will be computer chips designed to be the equivalent of Intel Corp.'s 486-series microprocessors, he said.
The former SGS Semiconductor Corp. started building the Bell Road facility in 1983. It had the structure nearly completed but not...
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