Samsung resumes investments in chip facilities

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Samsung Electronics is investing $1 billion to expand its production of semiconductors, particularly 256M-bit DRAMs. Part of the money would be used in increasing the production of 8-inch wafers at its facility in Austin, TX, to 30,000 wafers per month. The wafers would be used for 128- and 256M-bit DRAM chips. Samsung adds that 64M-bit DRAMs would still be the industry mainstay but would gradually be phased out after 1999. The company is also committing as much as 30% of its 64M-bit DRAM production to Rambus DRAMs, which the company believes has great potential in 1991 and onwards.

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, New capacity, new plant construction, Random Access Memory Circuits, RAM (Random access memory)

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Korea's IT sector lures $2.744 billion investments in 2000

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South Korea's information technology sector (IT) attracted $168-million foreign investments in Dec 2000, an increase of 42.6% from Dec 1999, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. This also accounts for 8.5% of the country's total investments for December. By sector, the IT equipment attracted $109 million. Also, the telecommunications service sector lured $109 million, while the software sector received $107 million.

Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Communications Equipment

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