Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Elpida Memory Inc. has signed a five-year foundry service agreement for China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. to produce Elpida's 100-nanometer based products at SMIC's 300-mm wafer fab.
Production is scheduled to commence in the fourth quarter of 2004, although the production quantity is yet to be finalized, Elpida said.
The two companies had previously collaborated in foundry arrangements at the end of 2002 regarding production of Elpida's 0.13-micron DRAMs.
"Elpida moves one step closer to achieving our target production ratio of 50:50 between our own fabrication plants in Hiroshima and external foundries," said Yukio Sakamoto, president of Elpida Memory Inc., in a statement. "Elpida's advanced process technology and SMIC's cost efficient and high quality production capacity is a winning combination that steers us toward becoming the number 3 DRAM supplier in the world."
This collaboration with SMIC would increase Elpida's production capacity and provides the benefit of increased local-content and reduced tariffs on memory chips for the Chinese market.
By: DocMemory
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