The new plant, located in central Japan's Mie prefecture and set to start output in April 2007, will process 300-mm wafers to make system chips with a circuitry width of 65 nanometers.

Officials have contributed to the perception that the government is trying to lend more credibility to this policy through the crackdown on UMC.

China's integrated circuit market surpassed the United States and Japan in 2005 with market value grew 32% to US$40.8 billion in 2005. globally for the first time, according to IC Insights.

The Chinese foundry is set to start make solar cells in the first quarter of 2006

The company is shipping its first machines with an Intel processor Tuesday -- six months earlier than it had predicted when it announced this switch last June.

After Suntech Power built a promising business, China vows to outpace every solar market under the sun.

Rambus is seeking royalties and damages from South Korea's Hynix on intellectual property it says is widely used in the $30 billion market for computer memory chips, known as DRAM.

The contract price of polysilicon has soared 80 percent in the last 18 months to $60/kg, and we anticipate further increases to $80/kg in 2006...

The plant is expected to cost $605 million, the report said. The report did not make clear whether the plant would include a wafer fab or would be used for packaging.

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