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Technology Stocks : Spansion Inc.
CY 23.820.0%Apr 16 5:00 PM EST

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To: Cravey who wrote (197)5/26/2006 2:58:09 AM
From: Rink   of 4590
 
iSuppli: Shortages of NOR products could materialize in 2006

... [iSuppli] noted that the revenue declines experienced in the NOR market in 2004 and 2005 precluded any major investment by the main suppliers in new NOR flash manufacturing capacity during those years. Instead, the NOR suppliers focused on migrating to finer pitch lithography, increasing their production of two-bit-per-cell flash technologies and entering into foundry support agreements for producing legacy technology products. iSuppli believes that while these moves are not insignificant, they may prove to be inadequate in the face of the increasing demand for flash memory for mobile phones and other electronic devices. Because of this, shortages of NOR products could materialize in 2006, the firm concluded. ...

reed-electronics.com

While Spansion hasn't invested much in more fab capacity either it did rent a TSMC fab...

Regards,

Rink
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