Asia Express - East Asian ICT
Renesas Expands MCU Production Facility in Beijing
February 06, 2010
Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Technology has completed construction on a new MCU (Microcontroller Unit) production facility at the back-end process plant of its Beijing subsidiary Renesas Semiconductor, EE Times reported on February 3. Injected with an investment of about 4 billion Yen (US$44.8 million; US$1=89.2 Yen), the new facility is slated to begin operations within fiscal 2010 ending in March 2011. It is estimated that upon commencement of operations, the production area of the Beijing facility will expand approximately 60% from 18,000 square meters to 29,000 square meters. Furthermore, production output is projected to grow from 65 million units per month at present to 100 million units monthly by the end of fiscal 2010.