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    <td><div align="center"><b><font size=2 face="serif">As filed with
        the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 12, 2004</font></b></div></td>
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    <td align="right"> <b><font size=2 face="serif">Registration No.
      333-</font></b> </td>
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<P align="center"><B><FONT size=4 face="serif">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
  COMMISSION<br>
  </FONT></B><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Washington, D.C. 20549 </FONT></B>
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<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=4 face="serif">Form S-8<br>
  </FONT><FONT size=3 face="serif">REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
  THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</FONT></B> </P>
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<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=5 face="serif">AMIS Holdings, Inc.<br>
  </FONT></B><I><FONT size=1 face="serif">(Exact name of Registrant
  as specified in its charter)</FONT></I> </P>
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      <TD width="50%" align="center"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Delaware</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">51-0309588</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD width="50%" align="center"><I><FONT size=1 face="serif">(State
        of other jurisdiction of<br>
        incorporation or organization) </FONT></I></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="50%"><I><FONT size=1 face="serif">(I.R.S.
        Employer<br>
        Identification Number)</FONT></I></TD>
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<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=2 face="serif">2300 Buckskin Road<br>
  Pocatello, ID 83201<br>
  (208) 233-4690<br>
  </FONT></B><I><FONT size=1 face="serif">(Address, including zip code
  and telephone number, including area code, of registrant&#146;s principal
  executive offices)</FONT></I> </P>
<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=2 face="serif">AMIS Holdings, Inc. Amended and
  Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan<br>
  </FONT></B><I><FONT size=1 face="serif">(Full Title of the Plan)
  </FONT></I> </P>
<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=2 face="serif">The Corporation Trust
  Company<br>
  1209 Orange Street<br>
  Wilmington, DE 19801<br>
  </FONT></B><I><FONT size=1 face="serif">(Name, address, including
  zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
  service) </FONT></I> </P>
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      <TD colspan="2"><b><i><font size=2 face="serif">Copies to:</font></i></b></TD>
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      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Darlene Gerry</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Jean McLoughlin</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">AMIS Holdings, Inc.</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Davis Polk &amp;
        Wardwell</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">2300 Buckskin Road</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">1600 El Camino Real</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Pocatello, ID 83201</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Menlo Park, CA 94025</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD width="50%"><strong><font size="2">(208) 233-4690</font></strong></TD>
      <TD width="50%"><B><FONT size=2 face="serif">(650) 752-2000</FONT></B></TD>
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    <TD colspan="5"> <B><FONT size=2 face="serif">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION
      FEE</FONT></B></TD>
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    <TD width="40%"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Title of Each Class
      of Securities to be Registered</FONT></B></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Amount
      to be<br>
      Registered(1)</FONT></B></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Proposed<br>
      Maximum<br>
      Offering Price<br>
      Per Share</FONT></B></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><strong><font size="1" face="serif">Proposed<br>
      Maximum<br>
      Aggregate<br>
      Offering Price </font></strong></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><font size="1"><strong><font face="serif">Amount
      of<br>
      Registration Fee</font></strong></font></TD>
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    <TD width="40%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Common Stock, par value
      $0.01 per share</FONT></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">2,308,827</FONT></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">$17.93</FONT></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">$41,397,268</FONT></TD>
    <TD width="15%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">$3,349</FONT></TD>
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<FONT size=2 face="serif">(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock that become
issuable under the plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, or other similar transaction. </FONT>
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<P> <FONT size=2 face="serif">(2) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating
  the registration fee. Computed in accordance with Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h)
  under the </FONT><FONT size=2 face="serif">Securities Act, based on the average
  of the high and low prices of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock on January
  7, 2004, as reported by the Nasdaq National Market. </FONT> </P>
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<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=2 face="serif">PART II</FONT></B>
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<P align="center"> <B><FONT size=2 face="serif">INFORMATION REQUIRED
  IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</FONT></B> </P>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 3: Incorporation of Documents by Reference. </FONT></B>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">The following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference: </FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">(a) The Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-108028), as amended, filed under the Securities Act, including the Prospectus dated September 23, 2003, as
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424 on September 24, 2003, which contains audited financial statements for the Registrant&#146;s latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed. </FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">(b) The Registrant&#146;s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended June 28, 2003, and September 27, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;). </FONT>
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<P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">(c) The Registrant&#146;s
  Current Reports on Form 8-K dated January 8, 2004, October 20, 2003, and September
  24, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act. </FONT> </P>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">(d) The description of the Registrant&#146;s common stock contained in its Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated September 22, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act,
including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. </FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. </FONT>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 4: Description of Securities. </FONT></B>
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<P> <FONT size=2 face="serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif"></FONT>&nbsp;Not
  Applicable. </FONT> </P>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 5: Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. </FONT></B>
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<P> <FONT size=2 face="serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif"></FONT>Not
  Applicable. </FONT> </P>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</FONT></B><B><I><FONT size=2 face="serif"> </FONT></I></B>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may indemnify directors and officers as well as other employees and individuals against expenses (including
attorneys&#146; fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any threatened, pending or completed actions, suits or proceedings in which such person is made a party by
reason of such person being or having been a director, officer, employee or agent to AMIS Holdings, Inc. The Delaware General Corporation Law provides that Section 145 is not exclusive of other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be
entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.</FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability for any breach of the director&#146;s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, for acts or omissions not in
good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, for unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions, or for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit.</FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Article 8 of AMIS Holdings, Inc.&#146;s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director of AMIS Holdings, Inc. shall not be liable to AMIS Holdings, Inc. or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. In addition, Article 8 of AMIS Holdings, Inc.&#146;s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that each
person (and the heirs, </FONT>
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<P> <FONT size=2 face="serif">executors or administrators of such person)
  who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or
  is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit
  or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative,
  by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director of AMIS
  Holdings, Inc. or is or was serving at the request of AMIS Holdings,
  Inc. as a director of another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
  trust or other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held harmless
  by AMIS Holdings, Inc. to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware
  law. The right to indemnification conferred in Article 8 also includes
  the right to be paid by AMIS </FONT><FONT size=2 face="serif">Holdings,
  Inc. the expenses incurred in connection with any such proceeding
  in advance of its final disposition to the fullest extent authorized
  by Delaware law.</FONT> </P>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Article 8 of AMIS Holdings, Inc.&#146;s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that AMIS Holdings, Inc. shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of AMIS Holdings, Inc., or is or was serving at the request of AMIS Holdings, Inc. as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such, whether or not AMIS Holdings, Inc. would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under Delaware
law.</FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">We also entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and officers. The indemnification agreements provide indemnification to our directors and officers under certain circumstances
for acts or omissions which may not be covered by directors&#146; and officers&#146; liability insurance. We have also obtained directors&#146; and officers&#146; liability insurance, which insures against liabilities that our directors or officers
may incur in such capacities.</FONT>
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<P> <B><I><FONT size=2 face="serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shareholders&#146;
  Agreement</FONT></I></B> </P>
<P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Section
  5.05 of the amended and restated shareholders&#146; agreement provides
  that AMIS Holdings, Inc. will indemnify and hold harmless each of
  persons (together, the &#147;Shareholders&#148;) holding securities
  covered by a registration statement, their officers, directors, employees,
  partners and agents and each person, if any, who controls such Shareholder
  within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section
  20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims,
  damages and liabilities caused by any untrue statement or alleged
  untrue statement of a material fact contained in any registration
  statement or prospectus relating to the registrable securities (as
  amended or supplemented if AMIS Holdings shall have furnished any
  amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus,
  or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a
  material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
  the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses,
  claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any such untrue statement
  or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission so made based
  upon information furnished in writing to AMIS Holdings, Inc. by such
  Shareholders or on such Shareholders&#146; behalf expressly for use
  therein, provided that, with respect to any untrue statement or omission
  or alleged untrue statement or omission made in any preliminary prospectus,
  or in any prospectus, as the case may be, this indemnity shall not
  apply to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability
  or expense results from the fact that a current copy of the prospectus
  (or such amended or supplemented prospectus, as the case may be)
  was not sent or given to the person asserting any such loss, claim,
  damage, liability or expense at or prior to the written confirmation
  of the sale of the registrable securities concerned to such person
  if it is determined that AMIS </FONT><FONT size=2 face="serif">Holdings,
  Inc. has provided such prospectus to such Shareholders and it was
  the responsibility of such Shareholders to provide such person with
  a current copy of the prospectus (or such amended or supplemented
  prospectus, as the case may be) and such current copy of the prospectus
  (or such amended or supplemented prospectus, as the case may be)
  would have cured the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage,
  liability or expense. AMIS Holdings, Inc. also agreed to indemnify
  any underwriters of the registrable securities, their officers and
  directors and each person who controls such underwriters on substantially
  the same basis as that of the indemnification of the Shareholders
  provided in the Shareholders&#146; Agreement.</FONT> </P>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 7: Exemption From Registration Claimed. </FONT></B>
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<P> <FONT size=2 face="serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif"></FONT>Not
  Applicable. </FONT> </P>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 8: Exhibits.</FONT></B>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Exhibit
        No.</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="87%"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Document</FONT></B></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">5</FONT></TD>
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      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Opinion of Davis Polk
        &amp; Wardwell</FONT></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">23.1</FONT></TD>
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      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Consent of Davis Polk
        &amp; Wardwell (contained in their opinion filed as Exhibit
        5)</FONT></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">23.2</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Consent of Ernst &amp;
        Young LLP, independent auditors</FONT></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">23.3</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Consent of Deloitte
        &amp; Partners Bedrijfsrevisoren, independent auditors</FONT></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">24</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Power of Attorney (included
        on signature page)</FONT></TD>
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      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">99.1</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">AMIS Holdings, Inc. Amended and
        Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan</FONT></TD>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">Item 9: Undertakings. </FONT></B>
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<P> <FONT size=2 face="serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)
  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: </FONT> </P>
<P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)
  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
  a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include
  any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
  not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
  change to such information in the Registration Statement.</FONT>
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<P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)
  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
  Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
  and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
  to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</FONT> </P>
<P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)
  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
  any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
  termination of the offering.</FONT> </P>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions
described under &#147;Item 6 -- Indemnification of Directors and Officers&#148; above, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue. </FONT>
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<B><FONT size=2 face="serif">SIGNATURES </FONT></B>
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<P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Act, AMIS Holdings, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable
  grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form
  S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf
  by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Pocatello, State
  of Idaho, on January 9, 2004.</FONT></P>
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      <td colspan="2"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font><FONT size=2 face="serif">AMIS
        HOLDINGS, INC. </FONT> </td>
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      <td width="10%"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font></td>
      <td width="90%"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font></td>
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      <td width="10%"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">By:</font></td>
      <td width="90%"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">/s/
        Brent D. Jensen</font></td>
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      <td width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Name:</FONT></td>
      <td width="90%"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Brent
        D. Jensen</font></td>
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      <td><FONT size=2 face="serif">Title:</FONT></td>
      <td><font size="2" face="serif">Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
        Officer and Secretary</font></td>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. </FONT>
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<FONT size=2 face="serif">POWER OF ATTORNEY </FONT>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT size=2 face="serif">KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Christine King, Brent Jensen and Darlene Gerry, and each of them, his/her true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration
Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents
or any of them, or their or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. </FONT>
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      <TD width="20%" align="center"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Signature</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD width="5%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center" width="30%"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Title</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center" width="15%"><b><font size=1 face="serif">Date</font></b></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%"> <HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"> <HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%"> <hr noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp; </TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">/s/ Christine King</FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Chief Executive
        Officer, President</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Christine King</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">and Assistant Secretary,
        and Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">(Principal Executive
        Officer)</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">Brent
        Jensen</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%" align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Chief Financial
        Officer,</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Brent Jensen</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Senior Vice President
        and Secretary</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">(Principal Financial
        and</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Dipanjan Deb</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">Colin
        L. Slade</FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Colin L. Slade</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="25%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  </TABLE>
</div>
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<FONT size=2 face="serif">5</FONT>
</P>

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    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">David
        M. Rickey</FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">David M. Rickey</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">Paul
        C. Schorr, IV</FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Paul C. Schorr,
        IV</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">Tomohiro
        Shibata </FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Tomohiro Shibata</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">David
        Stanton </FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">David Stanton</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">/s/</font> <FONT size=2 face="serif">James
        A. Urry</FONT></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><font size="2">January 9, 2004</font></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">James A. Urry</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center"><HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Director</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="20%" align="center"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Gregory Williams</FONT></TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="30%" align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="22%">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  </TABLE>
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    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Exhibit
        No.</FONT></B></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD align="center" width="87%"><B><FONT size=1 face="serif">Document</FONT></B></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD width="10%"> <HR noshade size=1></TD>
      <TD width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD><HR noshade size=1></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">5</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Opinion of Davis Polk
        &amp; Wardwell</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">23.1</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Consent of Davis Polk
        &amp; Wardwell (contained in their opinion filed as Exhibit
        5)</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">23.2</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Consent of Ernst &amp;
        Young LLP, independent auditors</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">23.3</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Consent of Deloitte
        &amp; Partners Bedrijfsrevisoren, independent auditors</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">24</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">Power of Attorney (included
        on signature page)</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align="center" width="10%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">99.1</FONT></TD>
      <TD align="center" width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD width="87%"><FONT size=2 face="serif">AMIS Holdings, Inc. Amended and
        Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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S-8
As filed with
        the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 12, 2004
Registration No.
      333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
  COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
  THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AMIS Holdings, Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant
  as specified in its charter)
Delaware
51-0309588
(State
        of other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S.
        Employer
Identification Number)
2300 Buckskin Road
Pocatello, ID 83201
(208) 233-4690
(Address, including zip code
  and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal
  executive offices)
AMIS Holdings, Inc. Amended and
  Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
The Corporation Trust
  Company
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
(Name, address, including
  zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
  service)
Copies to:
Darlene Gerry
Jean McLoughlin
AMIS Holdings, Inc.
Davis Polk &
        Wardwell
2300 Buckskin Road
1600 El Camino Real
Pocatello, ID 83201
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(208) 233-4690
(650) 752-2000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION
      FEE
Title of Each Class
      of Securities to be Registered
Amount
      to be
Registered(1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
Amount
      of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value
      $0.01 per share
2,308,827
$17.93
$41,397,268
$3,349
(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant's Common Stock that become
issuable under the plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, or other similar transaction.
(2) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating
  the registration fee. Computed in accordance with Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h)
  under the
Securities Act, based on the average
  of the high and low prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on January
  7, 2004, as reported by the Nasdaq National Market.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED
  IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3: Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference:
(a) The Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-108028), as amended, filed under the Securities Act, including the Prospectus dated September 23, 2003, as
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424 on September 24, 2003, which contains audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.
(b) The Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended June 28, 2003, and September 27, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").
(c) The Registrant's
  Current Reports on Form 8-K dated January 8, 2004, October 20, 2003, and September
  24, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act.
(d) The description of the Registrant's common stock contained in its Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated September 22, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act,
including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Item 4: Description of Securities.
Not
  Applicable.
Item 5: Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
  Applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may indemnify directors and officers as well as other employees and individuals against expenses (including
attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any threatened, pending or completed actions, suits or proceedings in which such person is made a party by
reason of such person being or having been a director, officer, employee or agent to AMIS Holdings, Inc. The Delaware General Corporation Law provides that Section 145 is not exclusive of other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be
entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, for acts or omissions not in
good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, for unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions, or for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit.
Article 8 of AMIS Holdings, Inc.'s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director of AMIS Holdings, Inc. shall not be liable to AMIS Holdings, Inc. or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. In addition, Article 8 of AMIS Holdings, Inc.'s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that each
person (and the heirs,
2
executors or administrators of such person)
  who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or
  is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit
  or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative,
  by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director of AMIS
  Holdings, Inc. or is or was serving at the request of AMIS Holdings,
  Inc. as a director of another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
  trust or other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held harmless
  by AMIS Holdings, Inc. to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware
  law. The right to indemnification conferred in Article 8 also includes
  the right to be paid by AMIS
Holdings,
  Inc. the expenses incurred in connection with any such proceeding
  in advance of its final disposition to the fullest extent authorized
  by Delaware law.
Article 8 of AMIS Holdings, Inc.'s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that AMIS Holdings, Inc. shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of AMIS Holdings, Inc., or is or was serving at the request of AMIS Holdings, Inc. as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such, whether or not AMIS Holdings, Inc. would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under Delaware
law.
We also entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and officers. The indemnification agreements provide indemnification to our directors and officers under certain circumstances
for acts or omissions which may not be covered by directors' and officers' liability insurance. We have also obtained directors' and officers' liability insurance, which insures against liabilities that our directors or officers
may incur in such capacities.
Shareholders'
  Agreement
Section
  5.05 of the amended and restated shareholders' agreement provides
  that AMIS Holdings, Inc. will indemnify and hold harmless each of
  persons (together, the "Shareholders") holding securities
  covered by a registration statement, their officers, directors, employees,
  partners and agents and each person, if any, who controls such Shareholder
  within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section
  20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims,
  damages and liabilities caused by any untrue statement or alleged
  untrue statement of a material fact contained in any registration
  statement or prospectus relating to the registrable securities (as
  amended or supplemented if AMIS Holdings shall have furnished any
  amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus,
  or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a
  material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
  the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses,
  claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any such untrue statement
  or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission so made based
  upon information furnished in writing to AMIS Holdings, Inc. by such
  Shareholders or on such Shareholders' behalf expressly for use
  therein, provided that, with respect to any untrue statement or omission
  or alleged untrue statement or omission made in any preliminary prospectus,
  or in any prospectus, as the case may be, this indemnity shall not
  apply to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability
  or expense results from the fact that a current copy of the prospectus
  (or such amended or supplemented prospectus, as the case may be)
  was not sent or given to the person asserting any such loss, claim,
  damage, liability or expense at or prior to the written confirmation
  of the sale of the registrable securities concerned to such person
  if it is determined that AMIS
Holdings,
  Inc. has provided such prospectus to such Shareholders and it was
  the responsibility of such Shareholders to provide such person with
  a current copy of the prospectus (or such amended or supplemented
  prospectus, as the case may be) and such current copy of the prospectus
  (or such amended or supplemented prospectus, as the case may be)
  would have cured the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage,
  liability or expense. AMIS Holdings, Inc. also agreed to indemnify
  any underwriters of the registrable securities, their officers and
  directors and each person who controls such underwriters on substantially
  the same basis as that of the indemnification of the Shareholders
  provided in the Shareholders' Agreement.
Item 7: Exemption From Registration Claimed.
Not
  Applicable.
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Item 8: Exhibits.
Exhibit
        No.
Document
5
Opinion of Davis Polk
        & Wardwell
23.1
Consent of Davis Polk
        & Wardwell (contained in their opinion filed as Exhibit
        5)
23.2
Consent of Ernst &
        Young LLP, independent auditors
23.3
Consent of Deloitte
        & Partners Bedrijfsrevisoren, independent auditors
24
Power of Attorney (included
        on signature page)
99.1
AMIS Holdings, Inc. Amended and
        Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Item 9: Undertakings.
(a)
  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
  a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include
  any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
  not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
  change to such information in the Registration Statement.
(2)
  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
  Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
  and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
  to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3)
  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
  any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
  termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions
described under "Item 6 -- Indemnification of Directors and Officers" above, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Act, AMIS Holdings, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable
  grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form
  S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf
  by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Pocatello, State
  of Idaho, on January 9, 2004.
AMIS
        HOLDINGS, INC.
By:
/s/
        Brent D. Jensen
Name:
Brent
        D. Jensen
Title:
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
        Officer and Secretary
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Christine King, Brent Jensen and Darlene Gerry, and each of them, his/her true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration
Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents
or any of them, or their or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Christine King
January 9, 2004
Chief Executive
        Officer, President
Christine King
and Assistant Secretary,
        and Director
(Principal Executive
        Officer)
/s/
Brent
        Jensen
January 9, 2004
Chief Financial
        Officer,
Brent Jensen
Senior Vice President
        and Secretary
(Principal Financial
        and
Accounting Officer)
Director
Dipanjan Deb
/s/
Colin
        L. Slade
January 9, 2004
Director
Colin L. Slade
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/s/
David
        M. Rickey
January 9, 2004
Director
David M. Rickey
/s/
Paul
        C. Schorr, IV
January 9, 2004
Director
Paul C. Schorr,
        IV
/s/
Tomohiro
        Shibata
January 9, 2004
Director
Tomohiro Shibata
/s/
David
        Stanton
January 9, 2004
Director
David Stanton
/s/
James
        A. Urry
January 9, 2004
Director
James A. Urry
Director
Gregory Williams
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Exhibits.
Exhibit
        No.
Document
5
Opinion of Davis Polk
        & Wardwell
23.1
Consent of Davis Polk
        & Wardwell (contained in their opinion filed as Exhibit
        5)
23.2
Consent of Ernst &
        Young LLP, independent auditors
23.3
Consent of Deloitte
        & Partners Bedrijfsrevisoren, independent auditors
24
Power of Attorney (included
        on signature page)
99.1
AMIS Holdings, Inc. Amended and
        Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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