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To: Ausdauer who wrote (24490)	1/7/2004 7:32:46 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

do you remember the old Multi-Media Card days? No. The reason I ask is because I have not seen others using Saifun technology other than Tower. At the end of this post is some information I copied from: commsdesign.com The information indicates Saifun's technology is being used to fabricate NOR flash and EEPROM memory and has been licensed to AMD. "Infineon is initially making the 512 Mbit NAND flash memory, its first chip to use TwinFlash technology, at its Dresden, Germany, plant using 200mm wafers. "The TwinFlash technology allows us to produce flash chips on the existing equipment used for DRAM manufacturing and consequently to enter a new market with basically no investment in manufacturing equipment," said Harald Eggers, CEO of Infineon's Memory Products Business Group. The "NROM" technology developed by Saifun Semiconductors is already used for NOR-Flash and Eeprom and stores two locally separated bits in one transistor cell. Compared to competing single-bit-per-cell floating gate technologies with equivalent process structures, TwinFlash is said to offer 40 percent smaller die sizes. The technology, also licensed by Saifun to Advanced Micro Devices, uses an oxide-nitride-oxide dielectric to store a charge via localized trapping. Infineon plans to reach 10,000 wafer starts per month using 170-nm technology by the end of 2004, and said it wants to be among the top three players for NAND memories by 2007. The company is already developing TwinFlash technology nodes with feature sizes of only 110 nm to further improve cost position and to enable larger densities of up to 2 Gbits. According to Peter Kuecher, president and managing director of Infineon Technologies Flash, "the NAND flash market is expected to be the fastest growing memory market in the upcoming years." The 512Mbit flash chip comes in a TSOP package and is targeted at the removable solid state storage market with products like SD-, MMC-, Compact-Flash-Cards or memory sticks used for digital cameras and PDAs."