***SiS to Construct 12-inch Wafer Fab
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) held ground-breaking ceremonies
last month, December, 2000, for its first 12-inch wafer fab and
R&D center in the Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park, in the
southern part of Taiwan. Samuel Liu, president of SiS, said the
company has raised the NT$50 billion in capital needed to
construct the facilities.
SiS will construct two 12-inch wafer fabs and R&D facilities that
accommodate 1,500 employees. The first fab will be completed in
the last half of 2002. The company will start with 0.15-micron
processing to produce core logic, graphics, and communications
chipsets. Initial capacity has been set at 20,000 wafers a month.
SiS will concentrate on system-on-a-chip and Internet appliances
in these 12-inch facilities. SiS will be the third company to set
up 12-inch wafer production facilities in the Tainan Science-
Based Industrial Park.
Wave Issue 0105 1/26/01 Article 4-02