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To: Ed Beers who wrote (42832)	2/7/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Sharp Cranking Up Chip Facilities To Meet Demand Rebound TOKYO (Nikkei)--Sharp Corp. (6753) has begun turning out semiconductors at facilities where the start of operations had been postponed since last April due to sinking demand, company sources said Sunday. Rising shipments of notebook personal computers and video game machines has squeezed supply of some types of chips, prompting Sharp to start up the plants. As a first step, part of a plant in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture has started making chips with a line width of 0.25 micrometer. The facilities, which will move up to full-scale operation in March, can fabricate an equivalent of 10,000 8-inch wafers a month. Products turned out by the plant include combinations of flash memory chips and SRAMs used in mobile telephones and audio signal processing chips used in MiniDisc players as well as masked ROM for video games. Demand for chips used for liquid crystal displays of notebook PCs has been rising since last summer and sales of memories for portable phones have been increasing since last fall, the sources said.