Rippey Corp.

05/01/1997

Rippey Corp., El Dorado Hills, CA, has incorporated a new sales and distribution facility called Rippey Technology Private Ltd. located in the Pantech Industrial Park in southwest Singapore. The facility is a full service conversion, distribution, and warehouse facility for the company`s patented PVA and other consumable product lines servicing customers in Singapore and Malaysia.

A report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper says that several top Japanese chipmakers are deferring plans for new fabrication lines because of poor market conditions. The article said Toshiba would bump the startup of its new Iwate Prefecture line to 1999 from March 1998, with Fujitsu postponing indefinitely the construction of a new logic plant in Fukushima Prefecture. An NEC ASIC fab in Yamagata Prefecture, originally slated for startup this spring, will instead wait until fall, while Mitsubishi has reportedly frozen construction at part of its logic fab in Ehime Prefecture, and Hitachi intends to stop operations at its Gunma Prefecture fab this summer.