Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!newsbytes From: newsbytes@clarinet.com Newsgroups: clari.nb.business Subject: Mitsubishi to Build 16M DRAM Plant in U.S. Keywords: Bureau-TYO Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 90 09:34:21 GMT Lines: 17 Approved: cn@clarinet.com 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)