UMCi
Awards Contracts for Next Construction Phase of 300-mm Semiconductor
Fab
Important Milestone Towards January 2003
Completion
Singapore, May 31, 2002-UMCi, the Singapore-based joint venture between
world leading semiconductor foundry UMC (NYSE: UMC), Infineon Technologies
AG (IFX), and EDBI, today announced that several major contracts have
been awarded for the next construction phase of the 300-mm facility
located in the Pasir Ris Wafer Fab Park. UMCi recently held the topping-off
ceremony for the wafer fab, signifying the completion of the building
structure and first phase of construction. The major contracts awarded
were:
- Hyflux Hydrochem (S) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary
of Hyflux Ltd. won the waste water treatment system contract.
- H+W Zander, a subsidiary of Jenoptik Group,
was awarded the cleanroom system contract.
- SOXAL (Singapore Oxygen Air Liquide Pte Ltd)
will provide the gas yard and total gas supply system.
- Sumitomo Chemical engineering Corp., Ltd.
(SCEC) will be in charge of the central chemical supply system.
- Vivendi Water Systems/USF will supply the
ultra pure water system.
UMCi President Chris Chi said, "After thorough
evaluation, we chose to award construction contracts to these companies
based on their expertise and experience in their respective fields.
With the awarding of these contracts, we are well on our way towards
the completion of the facility by our expected date."
The contracts, totaling US$68 million, is an
important step towards the completion of the 300-mm complex expected
at the end of this year. Total planned capacity is 40,000 wafers
per month with production scheduled to begin in the second quarter
of 2003 on UMC's advanced 130-nm (0.13-um) and 90-nm copper/low
k process technologies.
Contacts:
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UMC Contact in
the USA:
KJ Communications
Eileen Elam
(650) -917-1488
kjcome@cs.com
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UMC Contact in
Taiwan:
Alex Hinnawi
(886) -2-2700-6999 ext. 6958
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