Matsushita investing 0.97 billion Euros for new fab

Published: 9-Feb-2004


Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, best known for its Panasonic brand name, is investing 0.97 billion euros to build a new semiconductor facility aimed at making chips for DVDs, digital TVs, mobile communications equipment, SD memory cards and network-related equipment. MEI say that construction of the facility is set to begin in May of this year with production aimed for the end of 2005. The new facility will be located at its Uozu Plant in the Toyama Prefecture in Japan. The plant will be equipped with a 90-nanometer production process for large-diameter 300mm wafers, with plans to eventually upgrade the production processes to 65-nanometers. The company said that the facility would eventually have a capacity of 7,500 wafers a month. Investment in the expanded production of advanced system LSI (large scale integrated circuit) chips meets with its goal of targeting the digital home electronics market.

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