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Micron Technology to invest $2bn in Japan for cutting-edge chips

US company eyes mass production of next-generation DRAMs

Micron will install 13-nanometer production equipment at the Hiroshima Prefecture facility.

TOKYO -- Micron Technology plans to spend $2 billion over the next two to three years at a Japanese plant to churn out next-generation memory chips vital to such applications as smartphones, data centers and self-driving cars.

The U.S. semiconductor manufacturer has already added clean-room facilities to the Hiroshima plant as it gears up for research and development on 13-nanometer process technology. It has purchased several pieces of cutting-edge chipmaking equipment at billions of yen each (1 billion yen equals $8.9 million) for R&D and is expected to buy many more when starting mass production of the dynamic random-access memory chips.

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