Company is considering a new 300-millimeter semiconductor fab for LSIs TOKYO — Fujitsu Ltd. is considering the construction of a new state-of-the-art semiconductor factory but has yet to make a firm decision on whether to build the plant, the company said Friday.Its comments came in reaction to a story in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business newspaper’s Friday morning that it has decided to invest around ¥160 billion ($1.5 billion) in construction of a plant to process 10,000 wafers of 300-millimeters diameter per month. The plant will use a 90-nanometer and 65-nanometer production technology, go into operation in around one year from now and be built on vacant land at the company’s existing plant in Japan’s Mie prefecture, the report said.The factory will be used to produce system LSIs (large scale integrated circuit) for digital consumer electronics and high-performance computer servers, said the newspaper. In a brief statement the company said it is “continuing to explore the possibility of constructing a new 300-millimeter semiconductor fab” and added that a final decision has yet to be made with regard to location or scale. Software Development