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Toshiba, SanDisk open NAND flash wafer fab
Peter Clarke
7/15/2011 6:15 AM EDT
LONDON – Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. have announced the opening of Fab 5, the third 300-mm wafer fab for the production of NAND flash memory at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
The fab was described as having a total budget of 800 billion yen (about $10 billion) in 2010 and a fully facilitized capacity of about 200,000 wafer starts per month when the manufacturing expansion plan was re-activated in 2010.
Toshiba began the construction of Fab 5 in July 2010 and it started volume production on 24-nm process technology in July 2011. First wafer outs are expected in August. The chipmaking equipment has been paid for by Flash Forward Ltd., a joint venture between Toshiba and SanDisk formed in September 2010 – 50.1 percent owned by Toshiba and 49.9 percent by SanDisk.
The plant will transition to a 19-nm manufacturing process technology which is the world's smallest and most advanced process node.
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daleste
7/15/2011 9:53 PM EDT
Toshiba is a good company to work with. The joint fab with Motorola was a win for both companies. Too bad it will not run again after the quake.
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goafrit
7/16/2011 8:30 AM EDT
This is the future. Partnership and joint venture.
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eewiz
7/17/2011 8:18 AM EDT
10B for one fab! How long will it take to recover the capital expenditure?
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iniewski
7/18/2011 9:57 AM EDT
I never heard a number as high as this for the fab (10B). This must be the most expensive silicon fab in the world! Kris
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resistion
7/18/2011 10:45 AM EDT
Intel's 14 nm fab only half as much.
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7/18/2011 10:49 AM EDT
Yen exchange can't be going crazy can it?
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