In its mid-term business plan, the electronics conglomerate also said its capital spending for the three years to March 2015 will be about 1.4 trillion yen and it plans to spend around 1.1 trillion yen on research and development during the same period.
The firm forecast an operating profit for the current year of 300 billion yen last week, buoyed by strong sales of its flash NAND memory chips used in Apple Inc's blockbuster iPhones and iPads. ($1 = 80.3550 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Mari Saito, writing by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Michael Watson)
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