Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Spansion has announced an alliance with SK Hynix to introduce SLC NAND products at the 4x, 3x, and 2x nodes. As part of the relationship, the pair will enter into a patent cross-licensing agreement, Spansion said.
Spansion expects its first SLC NAND products resulting from this alliance to be available beginning in the second quarter of 2012. The company plans to introduce a family of NAND products over the next few quarters.
Spansion indicated the NAND products will complement its NOR offering and complete its product line, which is targeted at embedded applications such as automotive, industrial and telecommunications. The company plans to introduce a family of NAND products over the next few quarters
Hynix stated in a separate announcement that the firm will manufacture SLC NAND flash products for Spansion, which will combine the chips with its flash technology for embedded products targeted at applications such as digital TVs, mobile phones and auto use.
"As demand for NAND memory grows in embedded segments, we are well positioned as we continue to broaden our portfolio of Flash memory products to meet the stringent requirements of the embedded industry," said John Kispert, president and CEO of Spansion, in a statement. "Our cooperation with SK Hynix will enable us to expand our leadership in the embedded market with serial NOR, parallel NOR and now SLC NAND products."
"SK Hynix's NAND manufacturing competency and Spansion's market leadership can create leverage effect, which will enable us to provide the market with competitive embedded NAND flash products," said Oh Chul Kwon, president and CEO of SK Hynix, in a separate statement.
In addition, Spansion noted that the firm will continue developing its charge-trapping NAND technology.
Spansion in July 2010 signed an agreement with Elpida Memory to jointly develop NAND process technology and products. The deal also allowed Elpida to use Spansion's MirrorBit charge-trapping NAND technology to manufacture advanced products. Later in September, the pair jointly developed 1.8V, 4Gb SLC NAND flash, which was built based on Spansion's MirrorBit charge-trapping technology at Elpida's Hiroshima factory.
By: DocMemory
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