German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder holds a hammer as he stands in front of Saxony's State Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf (R), chairman of Infinion Technologies AG Ulrich Schumacher (2ndR) and chairman of Siemens AG Heinrich von Pierer (2ndL) during a groundbreaking ceremony of a new production module of the Infinion Technologies AG in Dresden May 30. Computer hardware producer Infinion Technologies AG, a unit of Siemens AG expects to start the world's first 300 mm wafer high-volume production in the second half of 2001.

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