Toshiba To Double Power Chip Production With New Plant in Japan

Toshiba will spend roughly 100 billion yen ($873 million) to build a power semiconductor fabrication facility in Japan, with production expected to begin by March 2025, Nikkei has learned. From the report: The new plant will be built on the grounds of Kaga Toshiba Electronics, a chipmaking subsidiary in Ishikawa Prefecture. Toshiba aims to meet the rise in demand for power chips -- used in automobiles, servers and industrial equipment -- that save energy and contribute to lower carbon emissions. All of the production equipment will be compatible with large 300 mm wafers. Compared with a 200 mm wafer conventionally used for power chips, one 300 mm wafer can produce more chips and boost production efficiency. Kaga Toshiba is also installing a 300 mm wafer production line at one of its existing buildings. The line is expected to begin operation between October 2022 and March 2023. Toshiba's investment for these endeavors totals around 130 billion yen. The 300 mm production lines to be installed in the old and new buildings will more than double the Japanese group's power-chip production capacity.

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[UnknowingFool]

Who is "we"? Toshiba is a Japanese company who has decided to build a plant in their country. I am not a Japanese citizen nor resident. I have no stocks in Toshiba. I do not have a say where they decide to build a plant.

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[UnknowingFool]

Yes because a Japanese company building a plant in another country will have no obstacles whatsoever. I am pretty sure that Toshiba looked at multiple factors before deciding on Japan like cost, staffing, tariffs, etc. Specifically Toyota builds cars all over the world because it far easier and cheaper to build and sell models in the same country. Factors like tariffs and shipping costs make it far more attractive for Toyota to build a car in the US and sell it in the US. But you have not answered the quest

Go Go Godzilla

[spinitch]

Go Go Godzilla , Furusato.

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[waspleg]

Straight up invading Taiwan would be WWIII. I wonder if that's part of the Russian Ukraine move ... distraction and split fronts...

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[jacks smirking reven]

I think China and Russia are on the same page in terms of they feel they need to posture to resist what they feel is Western encrochment but they have a balancing act since its 2022 and global trade means everyones economies are intertwined.

Despite their tumultuous history China and Taiwan have intermingled their economies quite a bit. Foxconn/Hon Hai, Pegatron, Quanta, Compal, TSMC are Taiwan firms with factories and large presence in China. MediaTek is a Taiwanese company and their chips power a ton of C

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[gtall]

"what they feel is Western encrochment"

Western encroachment my ass. They simply do not want their people or any people to freely choose their government. They want to feel free to bully their neighbors or invade when China or Russia's leaders get their knickers in a twist.

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[wakeboarder]

Someone was saying it would take china a few years to get tooled up to even consider twain, but they are working feverishly toward that goal. But we've already told Russia we'll stay out of Ukraine, so I don't think we'd have a split front.

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[Shazatoga]

The CCP will just send human waves like they did in Korea. Totalitarian governments don't care about the lives of their people.

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[wakeboarder]

This isn't a land war, its a sea war. You have to have a navy

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[jbengt]

I understand that these are electrical power switching chips, not Power computing chips.

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[algaeman]

The article does not spell this out well, but based on the context and the other companies named, I assume you are correct, and these are switched mode power supply semis, and the PWM and timing chips used in concert with smps for voltage conversion/restriction.