DRAM- world's 4th largest maker Bankrupted

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DDR2 1Gb may surge up to $1.2-1.5; Qimonda goes bankrupt

As Infineon hasn't provided capital and the German government decided not to support financial aid, Qimonda has declared bankruptcy

Friday, January 23, 2009
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN: German DRAM vendor Qimonda has declared bankruptcy! Consequently, the DDR2 1Gb chip price may surge up to $1.2 to $1.5, according to DRAMeXchange.

Two years of DRAM price dropping, even fell below the material cost of DRAM vendors in Q408, have driven the German, Korean, and Taiwanese governments to work on bail-out plans for the DRAM companies in order to protect future development of the industry.

Last December, Qimonda got the package of 325 million euro ($422 million) loans from the government of Saxony, its parent company Infineon, and a Portuguese state bank and once saw the light of survival. But according to the source today, since Infineon hasn't provided capital and the German government decided not to support financial aid. Qimonda declared bankruptcy.

According to the sources, after terminating technical cooperation with Taiwanese DRAM vendor Nanya in mid October 2008, as stated in their contract, their joint venture fab Inotera were going to keep supplying to Qimonda until August 2009. But after Qimonda stop paying the loans to Inotera, Inotera had cut capacity to respond. Inotera's new technology partner Micron will also increase its DRAM supply volume form Inotera.

Excluding the Inotera portion, the Qimoda's 12 inch capacity, including German and U.S., is about 60 to 70 K wafers. If the Winbond OEM portion was added, it adds up to 80 to 90 K wafers. The Q109 WW 12 inch capacity average wafer in is now 920 K wafers (the peak average was 1.25 million wafers per month in Q308), which implies that there is high possibility we will see 10 percent production decrease of global DRAM supply as long as other DRAM vendors keep their original capacity cut range.

The DDR2 1Gb DRAM may have chance to go up to $1.2 to $1.5 price level, which is the cash cost of DRAM vendors, under the circumstances of DRAM capacity keeps reducing.

Source: DRAMeXchange



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Qimonda, at one time the second largest DRAM manufacturer in the world, has filed for insolvency under German law, the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Such action provides creditor protection while it reorganizes its operations and restructures its debt.

Formed from the memory technology assets of Infineon in 2006, Qimonda was hit hard both by falling DRAM prices and the global credit crunch. Its name never really caught on either, as the Infineon brand was well known worldwide. It also sounded much cooler.

Qimonda was one of the first DRAM manufacturers to build on 300mm wafers, greatly lowering production costs but requiring costly initial investments. It now ranks fourth in production, behind Samsung, Hynix, and Elpida.

They had a much vaunted strategic alliance with Nanya through their joint venture Inotera Memories, but split after Nanya decided not to pursue development of Qimonda's Buried Wordline Technology. Qimonda sold its stake in Inotera to Micron last October.

Qimonda is currently dependent on its "Deep Trench" technology in comparison to the standard stacked capacitors of most DRAM manufacturers. Deep Trench technology has the potential for much smaller die sizes, along with lower power consumption due to lower current leakage. This makes it ideal for notebooks and netbooks, allowing for greater battery life.

However, Qimonda has had trouble in transitioning to lower process geometries due to technical hurdles in this esoteric technology.

Similar troubles have delayed its new evolutionary Buried Wordline Technology, which incorporated Deep Trench technology along with lower costs and a simplified manufacturing process. It featured unprecedented die sizes for DRAM, which would have made it extremely cost effective to produce on 300mm lines. They predicted that a 46nm line using Buried Wordline would produce four times as many dies as a 75nm Deep Trench line on 300mm.

In November 2008, Qimonda announced initial sales of 1Gb DDR2 using 65nm, and sampling of 46nm 2Gb DDR3 using Buried Wordline. It wanted to introduce mass production of 46nm 2Gb DDR3 in the middle of 2009, to compete with 50nm DDR3 chips from Samsung and Elpida.

It is unclear how much their product development will be affected. Their roadmap currently includes plans to produce 32nm DDR3 in 2010.

 

[makapaaa]

Can those EDBee bastards cum clean with how much of Sporns' blood and coffin money has been blown away subsidizing those thousands of Indian FTrash on training in the US for the flash memory plant?

 

[Hope]

Can those EDBee bastards cum clean with how much of Sporns' blood and coffin money has been blown away subsidizing those thousands of Indian FTrash on training in the US for the flash memory plant?

Qimonda chooses Singapore for new fab

by Matthew Humphries posted on April 27, 2007 10:35 am


The name may not be familiar to you, but Qimonda is the second largest memory manufacturer in the world. In spite of forecasts of DRAM supply outstripping demand in the near future, Qimonda has decided to build a new fabrication plant in Singapore.

The new plant will manufacture 300 mm wafers and when at maximum capacity will achieve 60,000 wafers a month and require 1,500 staff. This will be the third 300 mm plant Qimonda owns, with others located in Dresden, Germany, and Richmond, Virginia, and will cost US$2.7 billion to build.

The worries of oversupply of DRAM chips is a short term problem, with predictions that demand will catch up by 2008. The new fabrication plant will not be ready until 2009, meaning Qimonda will sidestep the issue.

Qimonda's choice of Singapore as a location is since it is a competitive place to have a business coupled with the existing expertise in this field located there. It also allows easy access to the Asian market, where a number of Qimonda's largest customers are based.

Read more at the IDG article.

MATTHEW'S OPINION
The memory business seems to follow the stock market mentality quite closely. Basically, the market is going to continue to rise in the long term, but there will be a number of scary blips along the way.

Qimonda is making the right move building this new plant as demand for DRAM chips is going to continue to grow. There is nothing in a long term forecast to say people are going to suddenly stop buying PCs, and the number of new gadgets hitting the market means memory requirements are definitely going to grow.

The news of extra fabrication plants being built is also good for consumers. As long as supply is high the price of the chips will remain low. New plants built in a stable or even slightly declining market means that the market will likely cope better when higher demand arises due to the previous over production.

 

[tun_dr_m]

That is proven yet again that any one or business that come to Singapore and join with PAP govt will get their share of PAP's Ass Luck and die together with PAP govt.

Too many recent cases already, more than 20 big ones. IRs & F1 & SG-stucker & banks & Thaksin all are examples.

 

[condom_loong]

Qimonda chooses Singapore for new fab

by Matthew Humphries posted on April 27, 2007 10:35 am


The name may not be familiar to you, but Qimonda is the second largest memory manufacturer in the world. In spite of forecasts of DRAM supply outstripping demand in the near future, Qimonda has decided to build a new fabrication plant in Singapore.

The new plant will manufacture 300 mm wafers and when at maximum capacity will achieve 60,000 wafers a month and require 1,500 staff. This will be the third 300 mm plant Qimonda owns, with others located in Dresden, Germany, and Richmond, Virginia, and will cost US$2.7 billion to build.

The worries of oversupply of DRAM chips is a short term problem, with predictions that demand will catch up by 2008. The new fabrication plant will not be ready until 2009, meaning Qimonda will sidestep the issue.

Qimonda's choice of Singapore as a location is since it is a competitive place to have a business coupled with the existing expertise in this field located there. It also allows easy access to the Asian market, where a number of Qimonda's largest customers are based.

Read more at the IDG article.

MATTHEW'S OPINION
The memory business seems to follow the stock market mentality quite closely. Basically, the market is going to continue to rise in the long term, but there will be a number of scary blips along the way.

Qimonda is making the right move building this new plant as demand for DRAM chips is going to continue to grow. There is nothing in a long term forecast to say people are going to suddenly stop buying PCs, and the number of new gadgets hitting the market means memory requirements are definitely going to grow.

The news of extra fabrication plants being built is also good for consumers. As long as supply is high the price of the chips will remain low. New plants built in a stable or even slightly declining market means that the market will likely cope better when higher demand arises due to the previous over production.

LKY runs Singapore as the FAILURE HUB.

All of the world's worst failures will come and concentrate here.

 

[DerekLeung]

Can those EDBee bastards cum clean with how much of Sporns' blood and coffin money has been blown away subsidizing those thousands of Indian FTrash on training in the US for the flash memory plant?

If you understand the rational of money itself.
You will choose to work smart instead of hard. As in any deficit.

The government can opt to print more money to dilute the currency market or collude with certain entities.

 

[DerekLeung]

LKY runs Singapore as the FAILURE HUB.

All of the world's worst failures will come and concentrate here.

All failures will come here because they can exploit the system that comes with bailouts.

Government bailouts. Golden parachutes for companies !