Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Announces Major Investment in Power Devices Business

March 10, 2021

Readying to Start Construction of 300-millimeter Wafer Fabrication Facility

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) will expand production capacity for power devices with the construction of a 300-millimeter wafer fabrication facility at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation in Japan. Mass production on the new line will start in the first half of fiscal year 2023.

Power devices are essential components for managing and reducing power consumption by vehicles and industrial and other electrical equipment. Growth in the e-vehicle, factory automation and renewable energy sectors continues to drive demand growth for power devices.

Toshiba has until now met demand by expanding production capacity on a 200mm wafer facility at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation. The company will construct the new 300mm facility in a building on the same site that currently houses a 200mm line. The new 300mm line will be used to manufacture low-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) and insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs).

Toshiba will make decisions on further investments to increase output in line with market conditions. It will also continue to expand production of discrete semiconductors, including power devices, at Japan Semiconductor Corporation, a manufacturing subsidiary that mainly produces system LSIs.

Toshiba will strengthen its power device business by expanding production capacity and continue to contribute to advances in energy-saving.

Overview of Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation

Location: 1-1, Iwauchi-cho, Nomi-shi, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
President and Representative Director: Hideo Tokunaga
Employees: Approx. 980 (as of January 1, 2021)
Main Products: Discrete semiconductors (power devices, small-signal devices and optoelectronics)

About Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., is the US based electronic components business of Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation. TAEC offers a wide variety of innovative hard disk drive (HDD) products and semiconductor solutions for data center, automotive, industrial, IoT, motion control, telecom, networking, consumer, and white goods applications. The company’s broad portfolio encompasses enterprise and consumer HDDs integrated wireless ICs, power semiconductors, microcontrollers, optical semiconductors and discrete devices ranging from diodes to logic ICs. For more company information, please visit TAEC’s web site at http://www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com/

Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications.