Infineon to invest in Asian plant
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Infineon Technologies, the second-largest chip maker in Europe, said Wednesday that it planned to invest about $1 billion in a new factory in Malaysia to expand its automotive chip business and be closer to customers in the region.
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(InfoWorld) - Qimonda, one of the world's largest DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip makers, plans to invest â¬400 million ($525.3 million) on two chip factories in Asia, the company said Thursday. The German chip maker plans to double the capacity of a memory chip assembly plant in Suzhou, China by adding a second building on its site, at a total investment of â¬250 million over the next three years. Construction will begin this month. The company will hire about 1,300 more people to staff the new factory building. Qimonda will also invest â¬150 million over five years on a DRAM module assembly plant in Johor, Malaysia, near the border to Singapore, the company said in a statement. Construction is planned for the middle of this year, with production expected to commence in 2008. The new site will require 3,000 employees.
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Samsung Electronics, the worldâs second largest chipmaker, said on Monday it would invest Won25,000bn ($24bn) in new chip production lines by 2010 to generate accumulative sales of Won200,000bn.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. ,  the world's biggest maker of memory chips, said on Monday it  would invest 938.8 billion won ($1.01 billion) to upgrade its  memory chip production lines.
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The Samsung Electronics Company, the Korean electronics giant, said Monday that it would invest $23.7 billion in new chip production lines over the next six years.
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Germany's biggest chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG on Tuesday launched a $1 billion power semiconductor plant in Malaysia, marking its first foray into Asia.
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The German chip maker Infineon finally gave the green light for shares in its memories unit to be floated on the stock market, a move the group hopes will reinforce its bottom-line.
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(InfoWorld) - The world's largest contract chip maker plans to invest up to NT$5.55 billion (US$168.3 million) in a smaller partner to strengthen their alliance and continue to farm out orders for certain chips to the company. The deal will see Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. increase its stake in Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. by up to 11 percent in coming weeks. TSMC currently holds a 26.8 percent share of the company, but has no intention of merging with Vanguard, it said in a statement. TSMC will continue to depend on Vanguard to handle certain chip-related work done in older 8-inch chip plants. TSMC has focused its new factory investment on 12-inch factories, which use larger, 12-inch silicon wafers during production. The company still invests in upgrades for its 8-inch plants, but has tried to avoid buying new production lines for the technology, which is slowly going out of use. Vanguard has put its 8-inch plants to use making specialty chips, including contact image sensors (CIS) and driver chips used in LCD (liquid crystal display) products such as monitors and LCD TVs. In March, Vanguard agreed to buy two 8-inch chip factories from Winbond Electronics Corp. with total production of 40,000 wafers per month. Hundreds of chips can be made on a single 8-inch wafer. By expanding its production, Vanguard can continue to take some orders from TSMC clients as well as increase its overall business. The two companies enjoy a close working relationship. TSMC may also be buying the stake because a Taiwan government investment fund, the Executive Yuan's Development Fund, wants to sell, according to Warren Lau, a chip analyst at Macquarie Research Equities in Hong Kong. The Development Fund still holds a 26.5 percent stake in Vanguard, and Lau believes that TSMC plans to buy a large portion of the government stake to raise its holding in Vanguard to as much as 50 percent. And it's a good investment: VIS may be the most profitable contract chip maker in the business, Lau said.
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(InfoWorld) - The investment arm of chip maker Intel said Thursday it agreed to invest $65 million in Powertech Technology, a Taiwanese chip assembler that specializes in flash memory and DRAM (dynamic RAM). Intel Capital said the funds, along with capital from other investors Powertech expects to bring on board, will be used as working capital to support the continued growth of its operations. Intel is an active customer of Powertech, it said in a statement, and led the round of financing for Powertech. The announcement came as no surprise in Taiwan, where Chinese-language media had been reporting such a deal between Intel and Powertech was in the works. The investment is one indication of how competitive the NAND flash memory chip business has become, and the importance of Powertech's services. Intel entered the NAND flash memory fray byÂ partnering with Micron Technology, a deal the two companies announced in late 2005, and started early last year under the name IM Flash Technologies. They entered an already competitive industry that included South Korean heavyweights Samsung ElectronicsÂ and Hynix Semiconductor, as well as NAND flash developer SanDisk. NAND flash chips have become popular thanks to widespread use for song storage in digital music players, including Apple's iPod Shuffle and iPod nano. One bottleneck in NAND flash production is in chip assembly, where companies seal the chips inside protective coverings, the final step in the making of a chip. Powertech specializes in memory chip assembly, including NAND flash memory as well as DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) DRAM chips. The NAND business has hit a few speed bumps recently. The popularity of the chips caused companies to build too many new NAND production lines, causing a glut of chips on the market and sending prices tumbling. SanDisk announced a few weeks ago that it planned to lay off 10 percent of its work force in a bid to remain profitable despite steep price cuts on its chips. The Milpitas, California company said NAND flash memory chip prices have dropped 50 percent in the last two months.
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MICRON Technology, the worldâs number two maker of computer memory chips, is planning to build its first plant in China by 2005.
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Infineon Technologies AG today said it would build a new front-end production plant in Kulim High Tech Park, Malaysia, at a cost of $1 billion.
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On Thursday, the company announced it will invest US$12 million over the next five years in a new research and developmentcenter in Tokyo.
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AMD and Infineon are to spend â¬170m ($200m) between them to build a nanotech research facility. According to a Bloomberg report, the R&amp;D centre will be located in Dresden, Germany, probably not far from
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Samsung Electronics said its board of directors has approved a plan to invest US$274 million in a second seventh-generation LCD production line at its Asian plant.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's  largest maker of memory chips, said on Monday it would invest  $24 billion in its semiconductor business by 2010.
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The German semiconductor maker Infineon has settled a technology transfer dispute with former Taiwanese partner ProMOS Technologies, Infineon revealed.
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U.S.-based chipmaker Texas Instruments Inc. said it will spend about &#36;300 million over the next three years to increase output at its facilities in the northern Philippines.