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SINGAPORE: Joint venture construction start-up on planned multibillion-dollar NAND chip plant is tentatively scheduled to begin during the first half of 2007, INTEL CORP. & MICRON TECHNOLOGY [USA] Order #: 123606.
WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific, December, 2006
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
In January 2006, MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC. and INTEL CORP. of the US came together to form a new company joint venture company known as IM FLASH TECHNOLOGIES LLC to manufacture NAND flash technology. Since global sales for NAND flash chips are now expected to grow 17% to nearly $12,000,000,000 in 2006 the partners have decided to build a new factory in Singapore.
Construction plans call for building a complex that will use the latest technology that etches circuits just 50 nanometres wide thus letting the companies produce more chips per wafer of silicon and with fewer defects. In addition, the chips will be made from 12-inch wafers, the largest available in the industry, meaning that more chips will be produced in roughly the same...
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