Taiwan will pass the test chip packaging factory to invest in the mainland deregulation

December 8th news, according to foreign media reports, the Taiwan stock exchange before the rumors, before after the upcoming Spring Festival in 2006 or June, the Taiwan authorities may relax on Taiwan chip packaging and testing company in mainland China Investment Limited, this good news, the Taiwan Stock Exchange listed shares of some related enterprises have go high, constantly refresh the recent record.

News from the Taiwan area of the chip test package companies said that at present these companies have done a good job of preparing to invest in the mainland, the authorities are currently only relaxed restrictions. With more and more integrated chip manufacturers (IDM) into the mainland to invest and build factories, chip packaging and testing companies in Taiwan began to step up to the Taiwan authorities lobbying efforts to encourage the authorities as soon as possible to relax the restrictions, so that they have to enter the mainland market.

In December 6th, Intel in China's second chip test packaging base in Chengdu officially put into operation, the base will be the main Pentium 4 CPU testing and packaging. Intel so far the total investment of the package base of $450 million, the base of the two phase of the project is also planned, the project is expected in will be put into mass production in 2007.

At the same time, Intel's main rival AMD also stepped up the enclosure movement in the Chinese market, AMD invested $100 million in Suzhou built test and packaging plant has been put into operation in the near future.