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TAIPEI, Jan 1 Asia Pulse - Taiwan authorities eased a restriction on local wafer foundries' investment in China Friday, by allowing them to produce eight-inch wafers using 0.18 micrometer technology there.
The decision was announced jointly by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Mainland Affairs Council.
Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen told a news conference Friday evening that the 1996 Wassenaar Arrangement - which controls the international transfer of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies - downgraded in 2004 the restriction on exports of semiconductor manufacturing technologies from producing wafers with lines 0.35 micrometer wide to wafers with lines 0.18 micrometer wide.
The United States has thereby revised its list of technologies forbidden for export accordingly, and no longer restricts the export of semiconductor manufacturing equipment for wafers using 0.18 micrometer technology, Chen said.
Against this backdrop, the minister said that forbidding Taiwan's foundries to produce wafers with 0.18 micrometer technology would only ...
Source: HighBeam Research, TAIWAN EASES RULES ON INVESTMENT IN FOUNDRIES ON MAINLAND.