Renesas moves up chip plant restart to early June

CALIFORNIA, USA: Renesas Electronics , a key supplier of semiconductors to the auto sector, said on Wednesday it expects to resume production at its Naka factory in northeast Japan in early June, moving forward the restart date for the quake-hit plant from the previous June 15 schedule.

It will resume production at the 200-mm wafer fabrication line on June 1 and at the cutting-edge 300-mm line on June 6.

The chip maker also said it expected its chip supplies to return to prequake levels by late July.