Toshiba Corporation said that it expects its newest plant to lift capacity by a smaller-than-expected 40 percent by December 2008
By: Captain Maverick
Sep 4, 2007 18:34 PM GMT
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Toshiba Corporation said that it expects its newest plant to lift capacity by a smaller-than-expected 40 percent by December 2008.
The Japanese electronics maker, which is hunting for workers to man its microchip plants to keep up with demand for portable electronics, said on Tuesday it wanted to gauge markets early next year before committing to bigger ramp-ups.
It kept mum about future expansion plans.
Toshiba expects its cutting-edge factory built in western Japan with partner SanDisk Corp to reach monthly production capacity of 80,000 300-millimetre wafers in July-December next year. That would lift the current monthly wafer processing capability from 200,000 to 280,000.
"The figure is far too modest," said Macquarie Securities analyst Yoshihiro Shimada. "Very roughly speaking, it's about half what it should be, given Toshiba's output targets."
Toshiba has been unable to meet about 25 percent of demand for NAND this quarter, which rose after power outages at Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) lines, Toshiba Corporate Senior Vice President Shozo Saito said.
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