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Powerchip readies 300mm fab for NAND Flash production |
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Jun 05, 2006 at 02:42 PM |
 Powerchip Semiconductor Corp has stated that it is currently installing equipment at Fab 12M, its recently acquired facility from Macronix and is expected to be in production by September 2006. PSC has licensed AG-AND flash memory processes from Renesas Technology Corp.
Renesas has announced previously that it expects to exit production of AG-AND flash memory with PSC becoming the major producing from 2007 onwards. Both companies have entered into new technology and sales licensing agreements to include Renesas' 4-gigabit AG-AND flash.
According to Gartner, Renesas had not migrated production to the higher densities and concern over the AG-AND flash technology being able to scale aggressively could see PSC take on more of the process development burden of the technology especially since Renasas will exit the business altogether.
PSC expects to be producing 100,000 300mm wafers per month by the end of 2006, though predominantly DRAM memory devices.
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