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NEC, Japan's second-largest chipmaker behind Toshiba, is scrapping production of 64-megabit DRAM chips this year to focus on products with higher margins.
NEC will stop making DRAMs at the U.K. factory by September, a year earlier than originally planned, the report said, adding the company will negotiate with its labor union in the U.K.
The U.K. plant makes chips such as 128-megabit DRAM for PCs and also microcontrollers, which are chips used in cellular phones and camcorders, spokesman Shinichi Kaede said.
Separately, NEC is suspending plans to invest 20 billion yen ($160 million) to boost production capacity at a DRAM plant in Shanghai, the report said. The Shanghai plant produces 128-megabit DRAM. |
