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BACK-END EXPANSION BOOSTS MCU CAPACITY
Production capacity has been increased at MCU back-end facility, to meet growing
Renesas Technology'sback-end process demand.
plant in Beijing, China. The new facility, Once operation is underway, the
which is the result of approximately ¥4 production area of the plant will be
billion investment, is expected to help expanded by approximately 60 per cent to
Renesas expand its core business of MCU 29,000m². Production is expected to
production. increase from the current output of
In particular, Renesas aims to supply approximately 65 million units per month
desirable and cost competitive products to to some 100 million units per month by the
the Chinese MCU market, which continues end of FY2010.
Renesas has extended its MCU back-end process
to grow. Work on the new building has
with new facilities in Beijing
been proceeding in order to enable RSB, an www.renesas.com
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