Fri, Mar 08, 2002 - Page 1 News List

Lin outlines plans for 8-inch chip fabs

CHINA INVESTMENT Under a plan now in the works, TSMC and UMC would be able to set up one eight-inch plant each during the next two years

By Dan Nystedt  /  STAFF REPORTER

Jeffrey Koo (辜濂松), chairman of the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, said yesterday that any further delay would cost Taiwanese companies the opportunity to invest in China.

"If the government continues to ban the nation's chipmakers from building eight-inch plants ... in China for another two years, then they may as well not even bother, because by that time it will be too late," Koo said.

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