Spansion to mass-produce Eclipse next year
By ONG YEE TING
PENANG: Spansion (Penang) Sdn Bhd, a leading company in NOR flash, would be expanding the manufacturing of their new technology product, Eclipse in the coming year.
Its managing director Chooi Ching Leong said the Eclipse chips, used mainly in mobile phones, would help to lower the cost of production.
"Eclipse is a new product that allow manufacturers to scale the portion of the NOR flash and NAND flash in a product.
"This product is cost effective as manufacturers would no longer have to use both flashes but to adjust the portions according to their needs," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Chooi said Eclipse was first announced in the third quarter of 2007 and they would be mass-producing it in the coming year.
"It is still a very new technology but the market's response is very positive," he said.
He said they were hoping that with the introduction of Eclipse, it would actually help Spansion to further strengthen itself in the mobile market.
Chooi said about 40% of the handphones worldwide were using Spansion's flash memory to store codes and they had recorded annual revenue of US$2mil (RM6.7bil) in 2006.
"As for this year, we had already achieved more than US$1.8bil (RM6.03bil) for the first three quarters," he added.
He said Penang was the oldest manufacturing site offshore and was focusing on complicated high-end products.
"Our device design centre, set up in 2000, was the first and biggest outside the United States and Japan and is usually doing the pilot line and transferring our technology to the other sites once it was established," he said.
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Joe
PS: I wonder if they mean Eclipse rather than NAND (in the story you linked in). |
