Nan Ya keep building fabs...........
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Story posted at 3 p.m. EDT/noon, PDT, 7/28/98
Nan Ya keeps building fabs, despite
slowdown
By Sandy Chen
TAOYUAN, Taiwan -- Despite the downturn in the memory market and
sizable financial losses, DRAM maker Nan Ya Technology Corp. here has
just broken ground on its second 8-in. wafer fab.
Nan Ya's new plant, dubbed Fab II, is located in the Hwa Ya Science
Industrial Park, near Taipei. The park was build by Taipei-based Formosa
Plastics, Taiwan's largest private enterprise and the parent company of Nan
Ya.
Nan Ya, which announced plans to build Fab II last year, said the full
capacity of the new, 0.13- to 0.12-micron plant will be around 30,000
wafers per month. Production will start in the first half of 2000, according to
Charles Kau, vice president of Nan Ya.
"To survive in the DRAM market, you have to keep building new fabs to
remain competitive," said Kau. "We also have to reach a certain economic
scale to remain competitive.''
Nan Ya's current fab, called Fab I, is currently producing 16-megabit
SDRAMs with 0.28-micron feature sizes. However, due to the oversupply
of DRAMs in the market, the fab's total production is 25,000 wafers per
month--about 10,000 less than originally forecasted by the Taiwanese
company.
Still, Fab I will produce 64-Mbit SDRAMs at 0.22-micron by year's end.
About 10% of this fab's total capacity will be dedicated to the foundry
business, but the plant will be converted to a pure foundry in the future, Kau
said. |
