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Investment & expansion
National Semiconductor officially opened its first manufacturing plant in China, an assembly and test facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, near Shanghai.
National Semiconductor officially opened its first manufacturing plant in China, an assembly and test facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, near Shanghai. National's newest plant represents 400 high-tech jobs for the local economy. The site includes three buildings on 52,000m2. National acquired a total land plot of 146,000m2, which is sufficient to expand on the site when more capacity is required. National is now shipping products from Suzhou to customers in China and around the world. National intends to invest $200mn in the facility.
After breaking ground in November 2002, construction began in earnest in January 2003. Fifteen months later, with construction complete, the company started hiring its first operation employees. Suzhou shipped its first finished products to customers in July 2004.
Brian L. Halla, National's chairman, president and CEO, comments: "We launched this project with a few picks and shovels and site surveys 26 months ago on a bare plot of land.
Today, those many months of work are paying dividends, enabling us to ship the world's most sophisticated analogue technology to National's customers around the world." National has other assembly and test plants in Malaysia and Singapore.
