Blargh. Intel joins all other CPU manufacturers in assembling P4 chips in China.

[yllus]

Intel's Shanghai Plant to Assemble Pentium Chips

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. semiconductor giant Intel Corp said on Thursday it was setting up facilities to assemble and test Pentium 4 chips at its Shanghai plant, but has no immediate plans to set up a wafer fab in China.

"What we are now seeing is assembly and test technology and that is taking wafers and cutting them into individual chips, assembling them and then testing them here," Intel CEO Craig Barrett told a news conference.

Intel said the new facility for the Pentiums, built on 0.13 micron technology, would be completed by the end of this year and the microprocessors bearing "Made in China" stamps would be produced in the first half of 2003.

Intel currently makes its chips in the United States and Ireland then ships them to be assembled and tested in the Philippines, Malaysia and Costa Rica, company officials said.

I'm not sure how much xenophobia is playing into my feelings on this issue but I don't like this at all. Is this the opening of the floodgates to tech sector companies migrating overseas in the interests of the bottom line, even though our respective countries don't see eye to eye on issues of morality and human rights? Hmm...what are the location(s) of AMD's production/assembly plant(s)?

 

[Ameesh]

if its good for stockholders im happy they are doing it.

 

[Red Dawn]

There goes the quality of Intel CPU's

 

[PsychoAndy]

You know, if Intel opened a fab plant in china, I wonder how many days it would take counterfeiters to completely copy the P4 design and open their own manufacturing facility (if they havent already)

 

[308nato]

<< You know, if Intel opened a fab plant in china, I wonder how many days it would take counterfeiters to completely copy the P4 design and open their own manufacturing facility (if they havent already) >>




About 72 hours.

Yoo Wan PeeFo Cheeep Cheeep ?????

 

[PsychoAndy]

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<< You know, if Intel opened a fab plant in china, I wonder how many days it would take counterfeiters to completely copy the P4 design and open their own manufacturing facility (if they havent already) >>




About 72 hours.

Yoo Wan PeeFo Cheeep Cheeep ????? >>



Hey, I'm just glad my relatives are good for SOMETHING. I got tired of feeding their sorry asses last time and had them deported

 

[SludgeFactory]

The vast majority of all semiconductor assembly, packaging, and testing is done overseas, and has been for a while. This is not the same as chip fab.

 

[308nato]

<< Hey, I'm just glad my relatives are good for SOMETHING. I got tired of feeding their sorry asses last time and had them deported >>



Cool. Is that a smooth process?? Every time I hear "deportation" I think of Johnny Dangerously. "You Farking Iceholes, You Deported Me To The Wrong Farking Country You Farking Corksuckers".

 

[yllus]

AMD Operations Overview

AMD develops advanced process technologies at the Submicron Development Center (SDC) in Sunnyvale, California. The SDC also serves as a pilot production facility for next-generation AMD products.

In Austin, Texas, AMD currently manufactures the AMD Athlon&acirc;?¢ processor and the AMD Duron&acirc;?¢ processor, as well as family processors, at Fab 25 (so named because the facility became operational in 1994, twenty-five years after the company 's founding).

AMD 's newest, $1.9 billion, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, began shipments of the AMD Athlon&acirc;?¢ processor in June 2000.

The Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor, Ltd. (FASL) joint venture fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, manufacturers AMD's innovative, low-voltage Flash memory devices on 0.32-micron process technology.

AMD has also established sophisticated test and assembly plants in Penang, Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand, as well as a world-class test, device analysis, and design facility in Singapore. AMD operates a test and assembly facility in Suzhou, China as well. In addition, AMD maintains quality support organizations in Sunnyvale, California, and Frimley, England.

AMD's in on it too. Someone want to look up where Cyrix CPUs are born?

 

[gopunk]

cool! good for china's economy

 

[Bluga]

The tide is turning, according to the latest reasearch, China will be the biggest semi-conductor export country in the world, surpassing Japan and Taiwan in 5 years.

 

[Bluga]

<< Is this the opening of the floodgates to tech sector companies migrating overseas in the interests of the bottom line >>



Who invented capatalism?

 

[Red Dawn]

<< cool! good for china's economy >>

Yeah too bad the workers won't benefit.

 

[yllus]

VIA Global Operations & Management

VIA has created a global network linking the high-tech centers of Silicon Valley and Texas with the Greater China Manufacturing Engine, including facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, Fremont in California, Richardson, Austin, and Arlington in Texas, Hong Kong and Shenzhen in China, Swindon in the UK and Cologne in Germany. This network allows the company to leverage the infrastructure of the world's leading high-tech R&D and manufacturing centers and also enables it to respond quickly and locally to the changing needs of its customers, supporting them on a global basis.

Bah, they're all doing it.


<< Who invented capitalism? >>

Even the US of A doesn't have unchecked capitalism, though. There are anti-competitive laws in place, for instance. I'd never go as far as to say we should have morality laws regarding whom we can do business with (though I suppose those are already in place with Cuba) but doing business with anyone, no matter what, seems a bit outrageous.

 

[Nefrodite]

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<< cool! good for china's economy >>

Yeah too bad the workers won't benefit. >>






thats just dishonest....

unless your willing to say the same for the US. trickle down my ass.

 

[Red Dawn]

<< thats just dishonest....

unless your willing to say the same for the US. trickle down my ass..... >>

Why is that dishonest.. and what is trickling down your ass?

 

[joohang]

<< There goes the quality of Intel CPU's >>


hahaha

 

[prontospyder]

How about PowerPC G3/G4 processors? Are they made in China too?