REUTERS
March 17, 2022 at 12:40 JST
Renesas Electronics Corp.’s Naka Factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, resumes operations after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in June 2011. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japanese automotive chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp. said on Thursday that it had temporarily halted production at two semiconductor plants and partially stopped output at a third following a powerful quake in northeast Japan yesterday.
Among them is its advanced Naka plant in Ibaraki prefecture, which supplies chips to auto companies around the world that have already had to to curb output because of chip shortages.
Renesas did not say when production would restart.
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