Thursday, December 7, 2006
Elpida Memory, Inc. and Powerchip Semiconductor will link up to build a DRAM fab in Taiwan.Elpida will apparently announce the decision today, which could involve a long-term commitment of $7 billion.
Elpida has spent at least several months looking for a site for a 300-mm wafer fab and Taiwan proved attractive, in part because of a compelling combination of tax breaks and an advanced semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure.
Elpida plans to invest 800 billion yen (about $7 billion) in the project, which will eventually yield a monthly capacity of 100,000-150,000 wafers. If Powerchip agrees to be a joint venture partner, the scale of the fab would double, rivaling the current capacity of Samsung Electronics, the report said.
By: DocMemory
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