Numonyx and NAND
Numonyx and Hynix extend NAND flash cooperation
Hynix Semiconductor and Numonyx have announced a five-year agreement to expand their joint development programs for NAND flash memory segment.
Under the new agreement, Hynix and Numonyx will broaden the scope of their joint development efforts to deliver leading NAND memory technology and products and combine resources to accelerate the development of future NAND technologies and solutions. Also they will collaborate on mobile DRAM used in multichip packages for mobile phones.
Manufacturing NAND memory is getting more complex as the technology scales, or moves to smaller and smaller manufacturing lithography nodes. Charge-trap device NAND is anticipated to replace the current mainstream floating gate NAND technology and Numonyx's experience in NOR flash-based technology should contribute greatly to this evolution, the companies said.
(first official meaning, that Spansions IP and Mirrorbit is
THE KEY to the future ;-))) )
Moreover, memory suppliers in the next five years will need to have a deeper understanding of device physics in order to develop overall memory system level solutions to overcome the challenges. Effective utilization of Numonyx's software expertise will help in this effort and make a positive impact in market penetration and increasing market share for integrated NAND solutions such as MicroSD, eMMC, and SSD, according to the companies.
In addition to the collaboration on NAND, the companies also currently have a joint manufacturing initiative for the production of 300mm low-power mobile DRAM in their Wuxi, China joint venture. This collaboration will allow both companies to ship more cost effective, low-power multi-chip memory subsystems to customers requiring small form factors, the memory makers pointed out.
digitimes.com
I don't know, why Numonyx should develop NAND with Hynix,
but who knows. Seems like they clearly see the end of their
own road with floating gate stuff, like we said already
months ago. The "only" thing Spansion has to do is keep
going forward with 45nm and 32nm. I'm waiting for all these
NAND guys who clearly drive into a big big wall ...
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