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Renesas restarted production on the 300mm chip line at its Naka plant northeast of Tokyo on Saturday, four weeks after a fire caused by an electricity overload burned an area of 600 square meters (6,458 square feet), destroyed 23 machines and filled the sensitive clean room with smoke and soot.
A return to full output at the plant will still take around 70 more days, Renesas Chief Executive Officer Hidetoshi Shibata said during an online press conference.
Renesas commands nearly a third of the global market share for microcontroller chips used in cars.
