A new trend?
Last November, ProMOS’s 8-inch wafer fab had a monthly capacity of 20,000 units, with 7,000-8,000 units switched from commodity DRAM to foundry service for niche DRAM, the company said.
Sources said the company may see 50% of its 8-inch capacity used for foundry business this year.
ProMOS wins orders from ATI and Nvidia
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Compiled from outside sources, Taipei; Carrie Yu, DigiTimes.com [Monday 2 January 2006]
ProMOS Technologies has landed OEM orders for niche memory from ATI Technologies and Nvidia, with the amount of orders exceeding thousands of wafers, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News.
ProMOS will supply pseudo SRAM (PSRAM) and low-power SDRAM (to be packaged with NAND flash or NOR flash into one chip) from its 8-inch wafer fab to the two graphics chip companies, the paper said.
The memory maker declined to comment on any specific orders it has received, the paper added.
Last November, ProMOS’s 8-inch wafer fab had a monthly capacity of 20,000 units, with 7,000-8,000 units switched from commodity DRAM to foundry service for niche DRAM, the company said.
Sources said the company may see 50% of its 8-inch capacity used for foundry business this year.
With DRAM production migrating from 8-inch to 12-inch wafer fabs, DRAM makers are converting the production at their 8-inch wafer fabs from DRAM to other ICs, such as NAND flash, CMOS image sensors and niche ICs. In a November 10 article, sources said Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) and ProMOS plan to provide foundry services for LCD driver IC production at their 8-inch fabs. |
