TOKYO -- Japan's Fujifilm Holdings will construct a new building at its chip materials plant in South Korea to boost production by 30%, pursuing demand from South Korean memory-chip makers in their race to develop high bandwidth memory (HBM).
Tetsuya Iwasaki, general manager of Fujifilm's electronic materials division, told Nikkei during an interview at this week's Semicon Japan expo that the new building will make CMP slurry, an abrasive powder used to polish semiconductor wafers. The company will invest several billion yen (1 billion yen equals $6.57 million) and aims to start mass production by around spring 2027.
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