The modern semiconductor product roadmap to build disclosure field of flash memory

Hyundai semiconductor company (Hynix Semiconductor) before the date of disclosure of the aspiring product roadmap of it, the company will be a large-scale production of flash memory chips based on NAND. Held in South Korea semiconductor industry association of Korea semiconductor 2005 industry exhibition (SEDEX Korea 2005), according to the modern semiconductor company official said, the company is developing the first modern semiconductor memory chips using 70 nanometer manufacturing process based on NAND, including a 16GB storage chip storage density. The company uses a single level unit (SLC) technology to build the chips will be put on the market, these chips using 90 nanometer manufacturing process, is a number of storage density of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB based on the chip.

According to the product roadmap disclosure of modern semiconductor company, 70 nanometer product development of the new company will soon meet with the user, including the storage density as part of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB chip, NAND chip modern semiconductor company 16GB plan it can produce sample in November this year, the product will be on the market next year.

If the modern semiconductor company to store the density of 16GB NAND chips can be put on the market, it will promote the modern semiconductor company to become the leading manufacturer of NAND flash chip. Last month, its rival Samsung electronics company claimed that the use of 50 nanometer manufacturing process has developed a storage density of 16GB NAND flash memory chips, and plans to launch in the second half of 2006.

Modern semiconductor company is changing its chip manufacturing plant layout, it will build a manufacturing plant for use in wafer storage chip Chinese Jiangsu Wuxi, this factory is a modern semiconductor semiconductor company and STMicroelectronics joint venture, the new Wuxi factory production is scheduled to produce DRAM and NAND flash memory chips, the establishment of a new factory the consolidation and development of modern semiconductor and semiconductor company St partnership. In the joint venture, the first modern semiconductor company will be transferred from the South Korean factory to produce the manufacturing process, a 8 inch wafer production line will be available by the end of this year. 300 mm diameter wafer production line is expected to be put into operation in late 2006.

Although the modern semiconductor company in the fierce competition in the field of flash memory has been a staggering growth, but so far the company's flash chip product plan has not been publicly. According to data released by market research firm iSuppli company, the growth rate of sales growth in the second quarter of 2005 was more than $57% on the basis of continuous growth.

The market research company said, relatively speaking, modern semiconductor company is entering a new flash memory chip market provider, the second quarter of this year the company has become the only modern semiconductor and Samsung Electronics Company and the Toshiba Co of Japan's third biggest global flash chip manufacturer.