Earthquake impact on Mitsubishi Electric semiconductor production facilities; no employee injuries or deaths, no collapsed buildings; minimal impact anticipated for most product lines.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1995--The Semiconductor Group of Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corp. Wednesday reported that there were no employee injuries or deaths and no collapsed buildings at any of its semiconductor and related electronic component production facilities as a result of Monday's 7.2 earthquake. The quake hit the Kobe and Osaka areas of Japan where Mitsubishi Electric Corp. maintains significant business interests, including semiconductor production facilities and development laboratories. Preliminary reports indicate that none of the company's semiconductor production facilities located in and around the stricken areas have collapsed, and only one facility, the company's KITAITAMI Works, has been temporarily closed for safety and damage assessment. The extent of the equipment damage at KITAITAMI Works is still being ascertained for full operation. The company's main production facilities for memory products (including DRAMs, SRAMs and non-volatile memories Refers to memory chips that hold their content without power being applied. It may refer to chips that are not changeable, such as ROMs and PROMs, or to chips that can be rewritten many times such as flash memory. ) and microcontrollers are its Saijo and Kochi factories, which have no major damage. Both facilities are located on Shikoku Island, approximately 120 miles from the epicenter of the quake. At the Kochi and Saijo factories, production lines were fully inspected and are now running. Mitsubishi Electric conducts R&D at some of its laboratories located in the quake area, including its ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integration) More than one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and VLSI. (Ultra-Large Scale Integrated Circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for ) labs, where some damage was sustained. The extent of this damage is still being ascertained. Most Mitsubishi Electric production facilities not affected by quake Other Mitsubishi Electric production facilities for semiconductors and related electronic component products are not located close to the Kobe or Osaka areas and therefore were unaffected by the quake. These include the company's Kumamoto Works, located on Kyushu island, where microcontrollers, microprocessors, application-specific standard products (ASICs), SRAMs, and non-volatile memories are produced; Kamakura Works, located in the city of Kamkura several hundred miles east of the area, where optoelectronic modules are manufactured; Fukuoka Works, also located on Kyushu Island, where application-specific standard products (ASSPs) are produced. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is a leading supplier of electrical and electronic equipment and is one of the world's top ten DRAM manufacturers. The company produces high-quality, advanced semiconductor integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. and electronic components, including memory devices (standard and synchronous DRAMs Synchronous DRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory , EDO DRAMs, Cache DRAMs, the 3D RAM, low power and fast SRAMs, Flash and other non-volatile memories, standard and custom modules and IC cards), microprocessors and microcontrollers, gate arrays, application-specific standard products (ASSPs), digital and analog standard ICs, image compression Noun 1. image compression - the compression of graphics for storage or transmission compression - encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required ICs, optoelectronic products, microwave GaAs FETs and RF power semiconductors, contact image sensors Contact Image Sensors (CIS) are a relatively recent technological innovation in the field of optical flatbed scanners that are rapidly replacing CCDs in low power and portable applications. , flat-panel displays and flexible disk drive products. Mitsubishi serves its customers locally through a North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. sales network and globally through the worldwide infrastructure of the Mitsubishi Electric Corp. CONTACT: Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc. Sherry Hill, 408/774-3188 (semiconductor-related) Simon/McGarry Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Carol Felton, 408/746-0911 (semiconductor-related) Mitsubishi Electric America Inc. Tom Chapman, 714/220-6896 (non-semiconductor products) |
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