Japan's Kyocera to invest $9.8 billion for chips over FY2023-2025 -Nikkei

[December 27, 2022]  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Kyocera Corp plans to invest 1.3 trillion yen ($9.77 billion) for manufacturing facilities and development of semiconductor-related products over three years starting in the 2023/24 business year, the Nikkei daily reported on Tuesday. 

A logo of Kyocera Corp. is seen at Wireless Japan 2012, a smartphone and mobilephone technology exhibition, in Tokyo May 31, 2012. REUTERS/Issei Kato

To fund the expansion for parts such as ceramics for chip-making equipment, Kyocera is looking to borrow up to around 1 trillion yen, using its 15% stake in KDDI Corp as collateral, the president Hideo Tanimoto told Nikkei in an interview.

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(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)

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