In a rebuff to Union IT and Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran, who had said global chip maker Intel will set up a $400 million assembly test manufacturing (ATM) unit in India, the company on Thursday said it was yet to make up its mind on locating facility in the country. “From our end nothing has changed, we are still in the evaluation stage. We are evaluating several countries and locations for our possible future manufacturing site. India is still on that list but we have still not made a final decision,” Intel India President Ketan Sampat said on Thursday. Maran, who met company chief Craig Barrett in the US early this month, had said on Tuesday that Intel had decided to set up the facility in India. When asked about the minister’s statement that Intel had shortlisted Chennai, Bangalore and Noida as possible locations for setting up the facility, Sampat said: “I think you would have to check this out with him.” Sampat said the situation was still the same as what it was in December 2004 when Barrett visited the country.
