Macronix mulls NOR flash memory products

TAIPEI: Macronix International Company (MXIC) is likely to get into the production of NOR flash memory products for automotive applications. A report cited company chairman Miin Wu as saying that the eventual goal of the company is cutting into the supply chain of original car vendors.

Initially, the company would confer flash chips for dashboards, and then move on to engine control units. The required memory applications will be below 64 Mb, he added. Now the company is also aiming at the market for NAND flash memory. By the first half of 2011, MXIC expects to roll out and deliver the NAND chips to potential clients, the chairman said.

According to Miin Wu, the densities of NAND products will be ranging from 512Mb to 2Gb.The chips will be churn out using 75nm process technology and the production node will be transitioned to 57nm.At present, the company has no plans to develop NAND flash chips for solid-state drives (SSD) and the NAND flash offerings will replace the existing NOR chips.