Tuesday, June 20, 2006

AMD Considering Plant Site in Upstate New York

An AP newswire article by Mark Johnson, via SFGate.com, reports that:

State leaders and semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are in discussions to build a $3.5 billion chip manufacturing plant that could bring 2,000 permanent jobs to upstate New York, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday.

AMD, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is considering two possible locations for the plant: One in a technology park about 25 miles north of Albany and the other on an 800-acre site in the central New York town of Marcy the state purchased 25 years ago.

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