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Elpida gets a chip deal with NEC

And a government bail-out
Tue Jun 30 2009, 10:31

TROUBLED JAPANESE DRAM MAKER Elpida has announced it will start making chips for NEC Electronics to bung into LCD TVs.

According to Nikkei Business Daily and Reuters, the NEC outsourcing deal, along with an injection of bail-out cash from the Japanese government, will help the struggling chipmaker get out of the DRAM market which has cost it a fortune.

NEC likes the deal because it can boost output of LCD TVs while keeping its own costs down.

Elpida will produce the equivalent of 2,000 to 3,000 300mm wafers worth of LCD driver chips a month, using DRAM production lines that it had shut down earlier because they were losing money.

Apparently the Development Bank of Japan will buy $312.3 million worth of preferred securities in Elpida as part of a state-backed support package.

Nikkei expects that the government will approve the rescue plan this week. µ

 

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