[Kyocera Semiconductor Investment will increase production of IC substrate and Semiconductor equipment parts] Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reported on the 17th that at the presentation of the medium-term operation plan held on the 16th, Hideo Tanimoto, president of Kyocera, a large manufacturer of passive components, announced that the total equipment installation capital of Kyocera in the next three years will reach up to 850 billion yen (about 43.5 billion yuan). Of this, 400 billion yen (about 20.5 billion yuan) will be used for semiconductor-related undertakings, and the investment in semiconductors will reach 2.3 times that of the previous three years, and will be used to expand the production capacity of ceramic parts for IC substrates and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The total amount of equipment and the scale of semiconductor investment have reached an all-time high of the company.