{"id":129512,"date":"2020-02-05T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=129512&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:58:02","slug":"toshiba-to-expand-its-semiconductor-facility-in-oita","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/toshiba-to-expand-its-semiconductor-facility-in-oita\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba To Expand Its Semiconductor Facility In Oita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba announced on January 27 that it would invest an additional \u00a510 billion in its Oita factory. The company plans to launch a new line to produce substrates for power semiconductors in July 2021. To meet increasing demands for the products, essential for industrial robots and electric vehicles, Toshiba aims to double the production capacity along with another factory in Yokohama. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXMZO54887480X20C20A1X20000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei<\/a> 01\/27\/2020<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_129516\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129516\" class=\"size-large wp-image-129516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toshiba.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toshiba.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toshiba.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toshiba.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toshiba.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-129516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epson Stylus S22 &#8211; Toshiba TB62254AFNG on controller<\/p><\/div> Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Raymond\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Raimond Spekking<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Epson_Stylus_S22_-_Toshiba_TB62254AFNG_on_controller-2257.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<br \/>\nPhoto: Image purpose only &#8211; not related to story<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba announced on January 27 that it would invest an additional \u00a510 billion in its Oita factory. The company plans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29355,"featured_media":129516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-129512","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/129512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}