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To: KeithDust2000 who wrote (2540)	11/14/2007 8:36:41 AM
From: bobs10	Respond to of 4590

you: Spansion (Penang) Sdn Bhd managing director Chooi Chin Leong said the company, which operates one of its manufacturing sites in the state, had started making inroads in the production of NAND flash memory chips. Me: I wish they said more. I assume this NAND will be MirrorBit based rather than Strata Flash? Lots of other questions about marketing etc. Well, I guess we'll find out more as time goes on like we did with the Saifun deal. One can't help but get the feeling that SPSN management is kicking the company into overdrive. Between the Saifun deal and now this NAND deal, the company seems to be realigning/reinventing itself to be a lot more than it has been in the past.

To: KeithDust2000 who wrote (2540)	11/14/2007 3:16:49 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4590

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. biz.thestar.com.my Joe PS: I wonder if they mean Eclipse rather than NAND (in the story you linked in).