Intel starts building $2.5-bln chip plant in China

时间：2007-09-10 08:34:31

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DALIAN, Sept. 8 -- U.S. computer chip giant Intel Corp. began on Saturday to build its first chipset plant in Asia, which involves 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in the first stage investment.

 

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett attended the ground breaking ceremony of the plant, which is located in the Dalian Economic and Technological1 Development Zone in northeast China.

 

Barrett said at the ceremony that Intel chose Dalian because it is a perfectly2 suitable location for the plant. "Intel will use its advanced equipment and technology to build an environment-friendly computer chip factory in the city, and promote the semiconductor3 manufacturing industry in China," he said.

 

Steel structures and other framework works have been in place at the factory covering 160,000 square meters.

 

Kirby Jefferson, general manager of the plant, said they have started recruiting staff from China and overseas, and are concentrating efforts on constructing the new plant.

 

The project, which was announced in March this year, is Intel's first chipset factory in Asia and part of its network of eight such facilities worldwide. The plant will go into production in 2010.

 

The ceremony was also attended by some senior officials including Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice4 minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top planning body, and Xia Deren, mayor of Dalian.

 

"The integrated circuit sector5 is one of the leading industries in China. The Chinese government has been furthering the opening-up and technological upgrading of the industry. I think Intel has made the right decision," Zhang said.

 

"Intel's Dalian plant is a new breakthrough of economic and technological cooperation between China and the United States, and it will also be a push for the development of China's northeast, a former heavy industry base," said Xia.

 

The city government of Dalian estimates the plant can provide about 1,700 jobs.

 

The new factory, dubbed6 "Fab 68", will use 90-nanometer technology, an advanced chip-making method that measures its work 90 billionths of a meter, the most advanced technology that the U.S. government has licensed7 for export, Paul Otellini, Intel's president and chief executive officer, said at a press conference in Beijing in March.

 

Intel's investment is part of growing foreign investment in China's computer and other technological fields.

 

The Chinese government encourages foreign companies to establish more research and development centers in China, Chinese Premier8 Wen Jiabao said at the opening session of the Inaugural9 Annual Meeting of the New Champions hosted by the World Economic Forum10 on Thursday.

 

China will unswervingly stick to its policy of opening-up and protect foreign investors11' legal rights by improving concerned laws and regulations, Wen said.

 
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adj.技术的；工艺的
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