Intel Corp's US$2.5-billion wafer plant in Dalian will start
operation in the first half of 2010 and it may adopt more-advanced
technology than expected, the factory's general manager Kirby
Jefferson said yesterday in Shanghai.
Intel, the world's leading chip maker, plans to hire a total of
1,200 staff, including "a couple of hundred" experienced workers,
for the factory.
Intel began large-scale recruitment this year, according to
Jefferson, who hopes to hire some experienced engineers from
Shanghai.
The plant covers 163,000 square meters of factory space,
including a 15,000-square-meter "clean room."
China is Intel's No. 2 market globally and it will surpass the
United States to become the biggest soon, according to Li Ke, an
analyst at Beijing-based CCID Consulting Co, a research firm under
the Ministry Information Industry. Intel has got approval from the
US government to make chipsets based on 90-nanometer or the more
advanced 65-nanometer technologies in China.
Jefferson said it will choose one of the two technologies in
about a year.
(Shanghai Daily February 22, 2008)
