Intel plans 65-nanometer plant in China

Intel, the world's top chipmaker, plans to invest in a major new plant in China to make leading-edge chips, its biggest investment in the country to date, two sources with knowledge of the plan said.

The plant will make 65-nanometer multicore processors, the sources, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. This would make it Intel's first such manufacturing facility in Asia.

Intel, which has invested about $1 billion in China to date, already has major test and assembly plants in Shanghai and the interior city of Chengdu.

One source said the investment in the new plant would total a "couple billion" dollars. Both sources declined to give further details of the project, such as the location and timing, though one said the investment could be announced in coming months.

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