{"id":798320,"date":"2021-04-17T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/04\/17\/japans-renesas-restarts-production-at-fire-damaged-chip-factory\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:45:44","slug":"japans-renesas-restarts-production-at-fire-damaged-chip-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/04\/17\/japans-renesas-restarts-production-at-fire-damaged-chip-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Renesas restarts production at fire-damaged chip factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Renesas Electronics resumed production on Saturday at a chip plant that had been damaged in a fire, worsening a global shortage of semiconductors used in cars, smartphones and appliances.<\/p>\n<p>The plant resumed operations at 9 a.m. local time, two days earlier than originally estimated, according to a spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>The factory in northeast Japan was hit by fire on March 19, caused by a power surge in one of its machines.<\/p>\n<p>Renesas, which commands nearly a third of the global market share for microcontroller chips used in cars, said last month that 23 machines were damaged and needed to be replaced or fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Renesas president Hidetoshi Shibata previously said that production at the plant would resume within a month, but a recovery to pre-fire levels would take up to 120 days. Shibata is due to hold a press conference on Monday to update the status of the plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Renesas Electronics resumed production on Saturday at a chip plant that had been damaged in a fire, worsening a global shortage of semiconductors used in cars, smartphones and appliances. The plant resumed operations at 9 a.m. local time, two days earlier than originally estimated, according to a spokeswoman. The factory in northeast Japan was hit by fire on March 19, caused by a power surge in one of its machines. Renesas, which commands nearly a third of the global market share for microcontroller chips used in cars, said last month that 23 machines were damaged and needed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}