BV> Samsung Electronics is establishing it's *first* US semiconductor
BV> manufacturing facility in Travis County, Austin, Texax. The US$1.3
BV> billion fab plant is considered the largest single Korean investment
BV> in the US. Construction is expected to be completed by the second
BV> quarter of 1997, and production should begin during the fourth
BV> quarter of 1997. Samsung will use the facility to produce -!- Wait
BV> for it --- 16- and 64-Mb DRAMs. The plant will use 0.35- to 0.3-um
BV> technology with 8-inch wafers in a Class 1 cleanroom.

Poor old Bob. So much for the crackpot theory that Japan has only
just lost the monopoly on ram and thats why the prices are dropping.
The Koreans sure aint gunna do their first ever plant in the US Bob.

BL> Jeeze! Korea is dead serious about leap-frogging Japan, then!

He's finally woken up, only close to a decade late. Poor old Bob.

BL> They must hope to use US technology as a flow-on back to Korea.

Poor old Bob. The US hasnt been a technology
leader on ram for a FUCKING long time.

BL> How on earth does Paul think any company could
BL> raise $1,300M without governemnt support!

Dead fucking obvious Bob, its called a positive balance of trade, you
end up with fucking great piles of money for the stuff you flog and you
then get to spend some of it like that. Nothing to do with the guvmint.

Its not even a particularly large amount of money, Optus has ALREADY spent
more than that here providing its phone infrastructure. Poor old Bob.
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