AMD, Taiwan's UMC plan chip plant

TAIPEI: Advanced Micro Devices Inc of the United States was considering
building a second 12-inch wafer fabrication plant with Taiwan's United
Microelectronics Corp (UMC), a local newspaper said on Saturday.

The Chinese-language Economic Daily News said AMD, Intel's chief competitor
in the market for microprocessors, gave no details, such as the location of the
plant.

But it said AMD plans to outsource production of its high-end processor
Athlon and Athlon XP to UMC, the world's second largest contract chipmaker, and
plans to book capacity of a fab from UMC.

UMC officials were not available for comment on Saturday.

AMD, based in Sunnycale, California, said at a financial meeting for analysts
on Thursday that it would -- for the first time -- outsource processor
production to a custom chip-making company.

But it did not disclose the name of the plant, or foundry.

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