Tsinghua Unigroup has decided on the location of the plant for the production of “Chinese” DRAM

Recently, Tsinghua Unigroup reported on reaching an agreement with the authorities of the city of Chongqing for the construction of a large semiconductor cluster. The cluster will include research, production and academic complexes. But the main thing is that Tsinghua settled on Chongqing as the site for the construction of its first plant for the production of DRAM-type RAM chips. Prior to this, the Tsinghua holding, through its subsidiary Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), began producing 3D NAND memory. Announcement of Tsinghua Unigroup entering the DRAM memory market done at the beginning of July.

A strategic cooperation agreement with the Chongqing authorities and local companies and funds was signed last year. At that time, it was assumed that Tsinghua (YMTC) would build another production facility in the vicinity of the city to produce 3D NAND. Two days ago, Tsinghua reported that a decision had been made and an agreement had been drawn up on the intention to build a plant in Chongqing to produce DRAM on wafers with a diameter of 300 mm.

Charles Kao (in the Chinese version - Gao Qiquan or Gao Qiquan) was appointed executive director of the new company for the production of RAM chips. He is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inotera Memories and President of Nanya Technology. In a word - a man in his place. Previously, he led Tsinghua's global semiconductor business and was chief executive of Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (XMC). This is the second company in the YMTC JV and appears to also be controlled by Tsinghua Unigroup. In any case, Charles Kao was appointed director there by Tsinghua management.

Since Charles Kao took over Tsinghua's new business, he was replaced by the directors of Wuhan Xinxin appointed no less interesting character is Sun Shiwei. Sun Shiwei started working at Tsinghua two years ago. Previously, he worked as the head of the research division of Motorola Semiconductor Corporation in the United States, and also served successively as the chief operating officer, executive director and vice chairman of the Taiwanese company UMC. This is a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of the semiconductor industry, which is not the first to become subordinate to Chinese structures. This is the trend.

Source: 3dnews.ru