newsbytes@clarinet.com (01/14/90)
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 JAN 3 (NB) -- Major Japanese semiconductor maker Mitsubishi Electric has revealed a plan to build a 16 megabit DRAM (dynamic random access memory) production line in the U.S. The firm has been producing one-megabit DRAM chips in Durham, North Carolina while preparing for 4-megabit DRAM production in West Germany. Mitsubishi now claims to have sited a 16-megabit DRAM production line at its Durham, North Carolina plant, and construction will take place in mid-1991. Output is expected in the middle of this decade. The plant will have a 0.6-micron process line. Mitsubishi has estimated the new plant will cost 50 billion yen or $345 million. (Naoyuki Yazawa/19900111)