As from July 1, Canon Sales Co Inc, a Japanese subsidiary of Canon Inc, will begin marketing equipment for manufacturing 64M-bit memory chips, a company spokesman told Reuters: the device called CORE-2000 is used to produce photomasks for integrated circuit patterns and was developed in the US by Ateq Corp; ICA Technology Ltd, a Japanese firm jointly owned by Ateq, Canon Sales and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd will make the equipment at its Ibaragi, Tokyo plant.
