Founded in 2016, the Chinese company Yangtze Memory (YMTC) plans to master the production of 128-layer 3D NAND memory by the end of this year, but its representatives urge not to go too far with enthusiasm about the self-sufficiency of this ambitious player in the global memory market. Without international cooperation, no manufacturer will be able to achieve progress.
At SEMICON China, YMTC CTO Cheng Weihua that in the second half of the year the company intends to enter the retail market with a wide range of solid-state drives based on its own memory. Personal computers, server systems, smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes and various types of consumer electronics - the use of drives based on YMTC memory will be almost universal.
It is reported that in the production of solid-state drives the company will cooperate with well-known controller developers: Silicon Motion, Phison Electronics and Marvell. Chen Weihua said: βI donβt think the trend towards international cooperation is reversible. No company or country in the world can produce everything on its own without relying on global cooperation.β YMTC has always brought its interests in the field of intellectual property protection to the forefront. As a result, it has accumulated more than 2000 patents, and the number of technologies licensed from foreign partners is determined by 1600 contracts.
YMTC has to tread carefully in today's geopolitical climate because it is dependent on US lithography equipment suppliers. Last week, YMTC began construction of new production buildings in Wuhan. Over time, the company will be able to produce monthly up to 300 thousand silicon wafers with memory chips - now this value corresponds to 23% of global volumes.
In the meantime, by the end of 2021, it will have to increase production volumes to 80 thousand silicon wafers per month. While at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China, YMTC continued to operate uninterruptedly due to both low concentration of personnel in production and high degree of automation of processes.
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