Electronics maker Toshiba Corp. plans to boost the value of its chip sales two-thirds by the business year ending March 2011, it said Monday.
The company aims to raise chip sales to 2 trillion yen from 1.2 trillion yen in the last business year by selling more NAND flash memory chips, a Toshiba spokesman said.
Demand for NAND chips, used in cell phones, personal computers, digital cameras and MP3 players, is growing.
Toshiba said that to help it achieve the 2 trillion yen sales target, it will raise monthly capacity at its NAND chip plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, to 150,000 300-mm wafers by September.
Flash memory output at the plant will eventually rise to 200,000 chips, the company said.
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