Fab Monitor: Capital Spending by Selected U.S.-Based Companies
-- Semiconductor International, 4/1/2001
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- Capital spending by U.S.-based chip companies will be down by at least 6% in 2001.
- Intel, AMD and Micron (including TECH Semiconductor) will actually increase spending.
- Intel plans $7B in chip capital spending.
- Texas Instruments and Motorola plan large cutbacks in capital spending.
- IBM and Atmel plan to keep spending flat - at 2000 levels.
- The seven companies listed here account for 85% of all U.S. company capital spending.
- Intel alone accounts for 36% of all U.S. capital spending.
- Spending for 300 mm fabs, 0.13 µm and other advanced technologies is going ahead despite adverse economic conditions.
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