Update on Toshiba Memory Corporation's Investment in Production Equipment for Fab 6 at Yokkaichi Operations
2017年8月3日 - 01:08PM
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Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that Toshiba
Memory Corporation (TMC), a wholly-owned subsidiary that
manufactures Flash memory, will unilaterally invest in
manufacturing equipment for the Fab 6 clean room at Yokkaichi
Operations.
As Toshiba announced in its June 28, 2017 release, “Toshiba
Memory Corporation to Invest in Manufacturing Facilities for Fab 6
at Yokkaichi Operations,” the company negotiated with SanDisk on a
joint investment in the manufacturing equipment, but failed to
reach agreement. Accordingly, TMC will move forward with a
unilateral investment in Phase-1 of Fab 6 that will equip the clean
room to handle TMC’s next-generation 96-layer BiCS FLASH™ memory,
and allow TMC to meet demand growth in coming years.
TMC will invest approximately 195 billion yen in Fab 6 in
FY2017, covering the installation of manufacturing equipment for
96-layer BiCS FLASH™ memory in the Phase-1 clean room, and the
construction of Phase-2. TMC calculates that proceeding
unilaterally with the installation of manufacturing equipment in
Fab 6 will require it to increase its funding by 15 billion yen
against its initial estimate. Installation is expected to begin as
early as December, 2017.
Demand for TMC’s next generation BiCS memory devices is expected
to increase significantly due to growing demand for enterprise SSDs
in datacenters, SSDs for PCs, and memory for smartphones; TMC
expects this strong market growth to continue in 2018. TMC’s
investment timing will position it to capture this growth and to
expand its business. TMC intends to increase the output of 3D NAND
at Yokkaichi to approximately 90% of its capacity in FY2018, and
will continue to make timely investments to expand operations.
This decision to move forward with a unilateral investment in
Fab 6 does not impact production for the memory business, as
Toshiba Memory produces the memory. Nor does it impact the various
contracts related to development.
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