Toshiba to pursue Samsung to spend five hundred billion yen to build factories to increase production

News: according to Japan's economic news agency reported, in order to catch up with the industry leader Samsung Electronics Company, the Toshiba Co plans to invest 500 billion yen to build a new factory to improve the production of flash memory chips.

Toshiba Co is the world's second largest flash chip manufacturers, it will be completed by the end of this year in Mie, Japan's new flash memory production plant, the plant is expected to be put into operation in early 2007 as early as the beginning of. According to news reports, the largest monthly production capacity of the plant will reach 100 thousand 300mm flash memory chip.

Now, Toshiba Co is expanding its third production plant in yokkaichi. Expected in fiscal year 2008, including fourth production plants, including the total monthly production capacity of Toshiba Co will reach 250 thousand 300mm flash memory chip, about the current production capacity of about three times.

SanDisk company has established partnerships with Toshiba Co, it will also be part of the investment.

This factory is mainly used for the production of NAND flash memory chip, NAND flash memory chip is a digital camera and portable music player for storing images and songs of the key components.

It is reported that the results of the iSuppli research firm survey shows that the global NAND flash memory chip market grew by 64% last year, the total size of $10 billion 800 million. Among them, Toshiba Co accounted for 21.9% of the market share, while Samsung Electronics Company controls a market share of 52.9%.