ProMOS gears for mass production

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: According to the latest company sources, ProMOS Technologies is all ready and geared to move Elpida Memory's 63nm stack procedure to mass production in the third quarter of the year 2010.

In the month of March, ProMOS had commenced trial shots on 63nm for Elpida’s 2GB DDR3 chips. The monthly output of Elpida’s DDR3 chips rose up to about 35,000 wafer after the ramp-up.

According to ProMOS sources, 50 per cent of its capacity for Elpida shall be utilized in PC applications and the remaining 50 per cent shall be used for the mobile and consumer electronic segments.

Also other than commodity DRAM, ProMOS shall offer Elpida having foundry services related to mobiles and specialty DRAM chips.

Additionally, ProMOS said it anticipates commencing production of chips on Elpida's 45nm or even 3Xnm by the second half of the year 2011.

ProMOS did not reveal when it will begin taking delivery of immersion scanner equipment, a main tool for ramping manufacture on sub-50nm processes.