April 8, 2003 – Taipei, Taiwan – Nanya Technology Corp. expects its capital expenditure this year to be US$670 million, an upward revision from the US$450 million the Taiwanese memory chipmaker projected in December.
Of the planned total under the new estimate, US$450 million will be used to fund a joint venture between the company and Infineon Technologies AG, said Moor Chen, VP at Nanya’s finance department.
Nanya and Infineon are building a 300mm wafer fabrication plant in the outskirts of Taipei.
The remaining US$220 million, said Chen, will be used at Nanya’s other chip plants, reported Dow Jones.