Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Toshiba plans to speed up its flash memory expansion plans and boost production capacity by 70 percent by June 2008.
Toshiba, the world's second-largest maker of NAND flash chips, and its partner SanDisk will push forward ramp-ups at a 600 billion yen ($4.9 billion) plant under construction in western Japan, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Omori said on Tuesday.
Ramping up capacity and driving down production costs is imperative for Toshiba, which is hurrying to catch up to top NAND maker South Korea's Samsung Electronics as chip price falls level off and present attractive margins.
Toshiba had originally planned to boost monthly capacity at its newest plant, expected to go online in October-December, to process 67,500 units of cost-efficient 300-mm wafers by October-December 2008.
Toshiba now plans to move that time table forward by about six months and its total monthly capacity would hit 260,000 wafers a month by June 2008, up 70 percent from the end of March.
By: DocMemory
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