TOKYO -- Micron Technology, a U.S. chipmaker, will invest up to 500 billion yen ($ 3.6 billion) in Japan over the next few years, including a plant in Hiroshima prefecture that makes DRAM chips.
State-of-the-art production line to be built in Hiroshima prefecture

Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron Technology's CEO, said his company will be investing an additional 500 billion yen in a chipmaking plant in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima.
TOKYO -- Micron Technology, a U.S. chipmaker, will invest up to 500 billion yen ($ 3.6 billion) in Japan over the next few years, including a plant in Hiroshima prefecture that makes DRAM chips.