FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2003
Intel ships Pentium chips from China
REUTERS
BEIJING: US semiconductor giant Intel said on Thursday it has begun shipping Pentium 4 chips from a Shanghai plant in which it has now invested $500 million.
Craig Barrett, chief executive of the world's largest chipmaker, said last May it was building a facility to assemble and test microprocessors bearing "Made in China" stamps.
Intel said in a statement it had begun shipping the chips, which the company had said earlier would begin in the first half of this year.
The firm makes the rest of its chips in the United States and Ireland, then ships them to be assembled and tested in the Philippines, Malaysia and Costa Rica.
Shanghai has suffered little in the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome which has killed 267 people and infected more than 5,000 in China.
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