Taiwan Memory chooses Elpida

TAIWAN MEMORY which has been set up to fix Taiwan's sick DRAM industry, has decided to use Japanese chip maker Elpida Memory.

Apparently, it is still thinking of an alliance with Micron Technology of the US possibly because Elpida does not make flash memory products.

Taiwanese officials stepped in to merge the chip industry because it owed so much cash to local banks. If the industry went tits up it could add woes to the island's already beleaguered financial industry. µ

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Computerworld