NAND flash to be main driver for 450mm wafers?

Posted on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 20:57 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

DigiTimes reports Gudeng Precision Industrial CEO and chairman Bill Chiu predicted that NAND flash memory will be the largest application of 450mm wafers:

If hard disk drives around the world are replaced with SSDs, global demand for NAND flash will be enough to support the operation of 10 18-inch fabs, Chiu said.

Gudeng was invited to participate in the specification of standards and formats for 18-inch wafers in 2008, and has obtained patent licenses from Entegris for the production of FOUP (front-opening unified pod), MAC (multi-application carrier) and FOSB (front-opening shipping box) solutions for use with 18-inch wafers, Chiu indicated. Currently, products related to 18-inch wafers account for 28% of Gudeng's revenues, Chiu said.

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