Inotera
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Inotera Memories, Inc. (Traditional Chinese: 華亞科技, Hanyu Pinyin: huā yǎ kē jì), incorporated on January 2003, is a joint venture between Nanya Technology Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc.
Located in Hwa-Ya Technology Park in Gueishan
, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
, Inotera currently has two 300mm fabrication facilities with a combined capacity of approximately 130 thousand wafer starts per month, nearly 10% of the worldwide 300mm capacity for DRAM manufacturing. Inotera provides commodity DRAM
memory foundry services on 300mm silicon wafers for its customers, Micron
and Nanya Technology. All of Inotera’s manufacturing capacity is reserved for these two customers on an equal basis.
Inotera is designed to focus on operational excellence in mass production to manufacture DRAM
memory products with high quality using state-of-the-art technology and to leverage its economies of scale in order to maximize its cost efficiency. The Company has reached full conversion to 70nm shrink technology in the end of June 2008 and started pilot production of Micron
’s 50nm stack process technology from the third quarter of 2009 in order to further improve the productivity and to reduce manufacturing unit cost. Its total capacity of 130 thousand wafer starts per month is expected to be converted into 50nm stack technology by the end of 2010 with DDR3 products making up the majority of the production.
Inotera’s main products are currently the 512Mb DDR
, 512Mb DDR2
, 1Gb DDR2
and 1Gb DDR3 products featuring high density, high speed, and low power consumption.
Micron Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Consumers may be more familiar with its consumer brand Crucial...
Located in Hwa-Ya Technology Park in Gueishan
Gueishan
Gueishan may refer to:#Gueishan, Taoyuan County, Taiwan#Gueishan Island, Yilan County, Taiwan...
, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, Inotera currently has two 300mm fabrication facilities with a combined capacity of approximately 130 thousand wafer starts per month, nearly 10% of the worldwide 300mm capacity for DRAM manufacturing. Inotera provides commodity DRAM
Dram
Dram or DRAM may refer to:As a unit of measure:* Dram , an imperial unit of mass and volume* Armenian dram, a monetary unit* Dirham, a unit of currency in several Arab nationsOther uses:...
memory foundry services on 300mm silicon wafers for its customers, Micron
Micron Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Consumers may be more familiar with its consumer brand Crucial...
and Nanya Technology. All of Inotera’s manufacturing capacity is reserved for these two customers on an equal basis.
Inotera is designed to focus on operational excellence in mass production to manufacture DRAM
Dram
Dram or DRAM may refer to:As a unit of measure:* Dram , an imperial unit of mass and volume* Armenian dram, a monetary unit* Dirham, a unit of currency in several Arab nationsOther uses:...
memory products with high quality using state-of-the-art technology and to leverage its economies of scale in order to maximize its cost efficiency. The Company has reached full conversion to 70nm shrink technology in the end of June 2008 and started pilot production of Micron
Micron Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Consumers may be more familiar with its consumer brand Crucial...
’s 50nm stack process technology from the third quarter of 2009 in order to further improve the productivity and to reduce manufacturing unit cost. Its total capacity of 130 thousand wafer starts per month is expected to be converted into 50nm stack technology by the end of 2010 with DDR3 products making up the majority of the production.
Inotera’s main products are currently the 512Mb DDR
DDR
DDR may refer to:In entertainment:*Dance Dance Revolution, a music video game series by Konami*DDR , a Norwegian rock band singing in German.*DDR , a Greenlandic punk band singing in Danish.In organizations:...
, 512Mb DDR2
DDR2
DDR2 may refer to:* DDR2 SDRAM, the computer memory technology* Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix, the video game* DDR2 , a human gene...
, 1Gb DDR2
DDR2
DDR2 may refer to:* DDR2 SDRAM, the computer memory technology* Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix, the video game* DDR2 , a human gene...
and 1Gb DDR3 products featuring high density, high speed, and low power consumption.