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To: Joe NYC who wrote (4174)	9/26/2008 3:07:49 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4590

Some more info on ORNAND2: Bertrand Cambou, president and CEO of Spansion told EE Times Europe said the initial 1Gbit, 2Gbit and 4Gbit density versions of ORNAND2, with an embedded 8051 MCU, is targeted at high value, high margin and embedded applications. "It is true that the NAND market is highly price competitive, but we are not addressing the high volume segments such as SSDs, MP3 players, and memory sticks, where quality is not so crucial." Cambou stressed "we have no appetite for the over-supplied commodities end of the NAND flash business." The initial parts, made on a 43-nm technology, will be made by Spansion at a fab in California. "We plan to transfer the technology to our Chinese fab partner, SMIC, by December, and they will be responsible for volume production, which should be rolling by the middle of 2009. Over time, we plan to shift the ORNAND2 devices to a 32nm process." Cambou said he expects the "sweet spot" for the ORNAND2 range to be the 2GBit part, but the company will in time offer an 8Gbit MCP version for those that require higher densities. eetimes.com