Takashi Yabu Named Vice President and General Manager of Fujitsu's Gresham Manufacturing Facility; Company to Add Logic Product Line

Business Wire, Jan 21, 1999

GRESHAM, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1999--Takashi Yabu has been named general manager of the Gresham Manufacturing Division of Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. (FMI), it was announced today.

As such, he is in charge of the production of state-of-the-art 64M Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memories (SDRAMs) in the recently enlarged Fujitsu fabrication plant.

"Mr. Yabu brings with him a wealth of experience in the development, process technology and production of the most advanced memory products," said Yuji "Gene" Ezura, president and CEO of FMI. "We are confident he will help us become an efficient, cost-effective supplier of high-end memory devices in today's competitive market."

FMI, which built its first wafer-fabrication plant in Gresham in 1987, opened an expanded wafer-fabrication facility in October 1997. The new 545,000-square-foot facility has twice the capacity of the original plant. One of Fujitsu's most advanced 64-megabit SDRAM wafer-fabrication facilities, the $1 billion plant can process up to 30,000 8-inch wafers a month using 0.25-micron technology. Fujitsu will add a logic product line this year in order to better meet the needs of its U.S. customers and increase the factory's manufacturing efficiencies.

Yabu, who joined Fujitsu Limited in 1971, has more than 27 years experience in semiconductors and electronic devices, both as a technologist and as a manager. Most recently, he had been general manager of the Technology Development Division of Fujitsu Limited's LSI Group. In this position, Yabu had been in charge of R&D for memory and logic-process, future-device and photomask technologies.

Previously he had served as general manager of Fujitsu's Memory Technology Division, as director of the Device Process Department in the Electronic Devices Group, and as engineering manager in the MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Process Engineering Department, also in the Electronic Devices Group.

Yabu started his career as an engineer in the IC Engineering Department of Fujitsu's Integrated Circuits Division. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from Hiroshima University in 1971.

Yabu replaced Jun Nakano, who has returned to Japan to work in the Electronic Devices Group of Fujitsu Limited.

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