Micron to build $7 bln plant in Japan to expand DRAM production – report
Micron Expertise’s solid-state drive for knowledge heart clients is introduced at a product launch occasion in San Francisco, U.S., October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Nellis
TOKYO, Oct 20 (Reuters) – U.S. reminiscence chip maker Micron Expertise Inc will construct a brand new manufacturing unit at its Japanese manufacturing website in Hiroshima at a price of 800 billion yen ($7.0 billion), the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The brand new facility will make DRAM chips, that are broadly utilized in knowledge centres, with manufacturing set to start in 2024, the report stated, with out citing sources.
Micron officers in Japan weren’t instantly obtainable to remark.
COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home demand for digital gadgets is inflicting shortages of non-memory chips that has pressured some producers, resembling automakers and smartphone makers, to curtail manufacturing. That has additionally lowered gross sales of DRAM reminiscence chips, however some trade watchers anticipate demand to rebound helped by an enlargement of information centres.
The report comes after chip big Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC) introduced plans final week to construct a plant in Japan, that media studies stated could also be partly paid for by the Japanese authorities.
Japan needs to lure chipmakers to the nation to make sure its corporations have prepared entry to provides of semiconductors essential to hold its economic system aggressive.
Micron, which additionally produces slower, however cheaper, NAND reminiscence chips for the info storage market, makes 300 millimetre DRAM semiconductors at its plant in Hiroshima and has a analysis and growth facility there.
($1 = 114.5100 yen)
Reporting by Tokyo Newsroom; Enhancing by Rashmi Aich and Richard Pullin
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