{"id":6187,"date":"2021-06-01T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:03:52","slug":"fire-damaged-chip-plant-will-resume-operations-by-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/fire-damaged-chip-plant-will-resume-operations-by-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire-damaged Chip Plant Will Resume Operations By June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese electronics group Renesas expects its fire-damaged chip plant to resume normal operations in mid-June, instead of the end of May as previously expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Naka plant&#8217;s 300 mm chip line capacity in eastern Japan is now 88% operational, while all new equipment is estimated to be installed and switched on by mid-June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caused by faulty electrical wiring, the fire was another major blow to automakers as the automotive industry continues to struggle with a shortage of semiconductors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renesas manufactures a third of the microcontroller chips used in cars worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire gutted 600 square meters, 23 machines were destroyed and the highly sensitive clean room used for chip production turned to ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japanese government appealed for help from equipment manufacturers, while customers such as Toyota Motors sent officials to help the chipmaker restart operations.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/renesas-restore-fire-hit-chip-plant-100-capacity-around-mid-june-2021-06-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire-damaged Chip plant in Japan will resume operations by mid-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}