Taiwan plans new memory company

THE TAIWANESE GOVERNMENT is planning to establish a DRAM memory company, according to reports.

Digitimes reckons legendary Acer founder and leading light in establishing the island as an IT powerhouse, Stan Shih, was approached to run the proposed new company but declined. As did chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Morris Chang,

Taiwan has been considering bailing out its memory makers since these have acted like bankers and passed around the begging bowl. The government is still figuring out how best to act.

Now it seems it will throw a new company into the mix, which may or may not be called Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) or Taiwan Memory Inc. (TMI), and may or may not be announced next week. Maybe.

Taiwan's memory chip makers have dropped five per cent of their market share over the past six months according to DRAM Exchange. µ

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