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NEC Plans Y3 Bln Broadband Telecom Chip Facility -Nikkei
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TOKYO (Nikkei)--NEC Corp. (NIPNY or 6701) aims to spend some Y3 billion to set up a trial production line for advanced semiconductors for use in broadband telecommunications and other equipment, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Monday morning edition, citing company sources.
A three-story, 11,000 sq. meter plant will be built by March at a Shiga Prefecture-based subsidiary.
It will house a 2,000 sq. meter clean room and advanced production machines, including electron-beam steppers and crystal-growth equipment.
A total of some 130 NEC engineers, who are currently dispersed throughout Shiga, Ibaraki and other prefectures, will be brought together to work at the new facility to develop devices such as diodes for use with wavelength division multiplexing equipment. These devices will be made with gallium arsenide and other compounds.
The facility will be built next to NEC's semiconductor plant, to speed up the process from R&D through to production and marketing.
This October, NEC spun off its division dedicated to chips for broadband telecommunications to form NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices Ltd. in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, the company that will operate the trial production facility. |
