According to official press release of the Japanese company Toshiba, corporate management approved a plan to build a new plant for the production of multi-layer memory 3D NAND (corporate trade name - BiCS FLASH). Memory 3D NAND has become one possibility, which allows a jump ramp of NAND-flash memory capacity without reducing the technological production standards last became prohibitively costly event for process technology with the scale of less than 15 nm, while the 3D NAND can be produced on the old equipment without any problems with the standards 35-45 nm.
The new factory Toshiba on 3D NAND memory issue would be built on land near the existing industrial complex in Yokkaichi. The factory will be built in two phases, in order to better allocate resources in line with changing market conditions. In just three years to build the company plans to invest about $ 3.2 billion. The first phase of the company will begin construction in February 2017 with the introduction of its operation in the summer of 2018. At the moment, Toshiba no specific plans regarding capacities, which will be deployed in the first line of shops. The volumes will be determined closer to the stage of procurement of production equipment - in the summer and autumn of next year.
In addition to the actual production facilities near the new plant will be built a modern center for research and development. It will bring together the most science and production, gathering in one place specialized professionals Toshiba. The company hopes that the new owner of SanDisk company - Western Digital company- will follow its example and become a Toshiba partner to finance joint industrial projects in Japan. Previously, we recall, SanDisk's on par with Toshiba planed to build factories and fund development.
We add a new plant will be built taking into account the protection against earthquakes, get energy-efficient production equipment, LED-lighting in the workplace and the AI to control the production, which will increase productivity.