(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) and Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) today celebrated the opening of the New Fab 2 semiconductor fabrication facility located in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
Expanded use of flash memory in smartphones, SSDs, and other applications is driving continued growth of the global flash memory market. The New Fab 2 facility will support the conversion of the companies' 2D NAND capacity to 3D flash memory, allowing realization of solutions offering higher densities and better device performance.
Construction of New Fab 2 began in September 2014. ...
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