Thursday, July 6, 2006
ProMOS Technologies Inc , Taiwan's third-largest maker of computer memory chips, yesterday said it would spend US$2.5 billion in building a new advanced plant to meet future demand for bigger memory storage following the launch of Microsoft Corp's Vista operating system.
The new plant would be ProMOS' third 12-inch plant and is set to start mass production by the end of next year at the earliest. It will cut chips from 12-inch diameter silicon wafers.
The large 12-inch wafers can yield more than twice as many chips as the standard 8-inch variety, helping chipmakers save production costs and offer competitively priced products.
"We believe [Microsoft's] Vista operating system will boost demand for memory chips next year," ProMOS spokesman Ben Tseng told reporters on the sidelines of the groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant in Taichung.
Tseng said feedback from customers indicated that Vista-enabled computers, expected to hit the market next quarter, would be equipped with roughly 35 percent more memory space, compared with computers sold in the first quarter of this year.
By: DocMemory
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