Toshiba starts work on 3D NAND fab
Toshiba and SanDisk have officially opened their new Fab 5 facility in Japan and have started building their 3D NAND fab, Fab 2.
Construction of the new fab is due to complete by next Summer. The clean room within it will be built in phases to align the clean room investment with the timing of conversion of 2D NAND capacity to 3D NAND.
Construction of the initial cleanroom will be complete in time for 2016 output.
Yasuo Naruke, Toshiba's corporate senior vice president, said: "We are confident that our joint venture with SanDisk will allow us to produce cost competitive next generation memories at Yokkaichi."
