Canon to build $345m plant for chipmaking equipment in Japan

Company to develop next-generation lithography devices

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Canon plans to spend $345 million to build a new plant to produce semiconductor lithography equipment by the spring of 2025. (Source photo by AP) 

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Canon will build a new semiconductor equipment plant in eastern Japan, Nikkei has learned, as the company mirrors big investments by chipmakers in the U.S., South Korea and Taiwan.

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