Taiwan Powerchip to Reduce DRAM Production from 70 Percent to 50 Percent
December 7, 2000 (TAIPEI) -- Taiwan Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. intends to reduce the portion of DRAM production from 70 percent to 50 percent of total output in 2001, company President Michael Tsai said.
PSC is now changing the way the company operates in an effort to avoid the direct effects of the silicon cycle, taking advantage of the DRAM's big price decline. PSC's concept is that it intends to produce not only DRAMs for use in PCs, but various chips for use in mobile phones, communications equipment and home-use digital equipment, to disperse the risk of placing its focus only on a few products.
So far, PSC does not intend to move into the system LSI business immediately, but for the first step, it intends to start the production of SRAMs and ASICs in addition to DRAMs to firm its position as a memory maker.
PSC intends not only to produce SRAMs for Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd., but to develop its silicon foundry business, processing ASICs for some design companies in Taiwan. PSC's production of ASICs was quite small in 2000, but it intends to increase that to about 30 percent of its total production in 2001.
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(Nikkei Microdevices) |
