Japan

12/01/1998

Japan

Matsushita Electronics Corp. is postponing production at its Toyama Prefecture DRAM fab by a year and will delay other plans to build a fab dedicated to 0.18-?m processes in Japan, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The company is also planning to hold annual capital spending over the next four years at 60 billion yen, down from 100 billion yen.

Toshiba Corp. is reportedly scaling back production of 64-Mbit DRAMs to 50% of its total output, and shifting capacity to higher-margin products, such as flash memories, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The firm originally planned to output 8 million 64-Mbit DRAMs/ month, but that number has dropped to 7 million.