Intel Corp and China Huajing Electronics Group will this week sign a subcontracting deal in Peking to assemble and test imported 80386 chips at a Huajing plant at Wuxi in south-coastal Jiangsu province, Reuter reports: the pact marks Intel’s first cautious import of raw chips directly into China for final assembly at a time when the Cold War watchdog body CoCom continues to bar import of its more advanced semiconductor technologies, executives said but the 386 is not on the CoCom list, one Intel executive told the newswire; Western and Chinese vendors are expected to sell up to 1m desktop computers in China this year with 95% of them using iAPX-86 chips.
