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To: Norrin Radd who wrote (4004)	9/21/1998 11:38:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9582

Japanese DRAM Makers Scale Back Domestic Ops. (3:20 p.m. EDT, 9/21/98) By Jack Robertson Matushita Electronics Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. , who each closed U.S. fabs this month, are now slated to scale back fab operations in Japan as they cope with sluggish global chip demand. Nikkei press in Tokyo reported Monday that Matsushita will delay the production rampup for a year at a new fab in Tonami, Japan, as well as postpone the start of construction of another fab in Niigata until 2000. The press report also claimed Matsushita was cutting its semiconductor capital spending 40 percent over the next four years down to $450 million. Matsushita earlier this month said it would close its U.S. fab in Puyallup, Washington, that made 4-megabit DRAMs and some consumer electronic ASICs. That fab had been acquired from National Semiconductor Corp. Hitachi is shutting down an epitaxial wafer fab in Ibaraki, Japan. The plant's 8-inch wafer epi production line will be transferred to two other Hitachi facilities, and a 6-inch epi line will be permanently closed. The latest Hitachi scaleback comes in the wake of closing its 6-inch wafer fab in Richardson, Tex., and exiting the Twinstar joint venture fab with Texas Instruments, which was then closed when TI sold its DRAM business to Micron Technology Inc. ebnews.com