SIEMENS JOINT VENTURE SETS UP TAIWAN DRAM CHIP PLANT

ProMOS Technologies Inc, a joint venture between Taiwanese memory maker Mosel Vitelic and Siemens Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Siemens Microelectronics Inc, have opened a new 8-inch wafer fab in Hsinchu, Taiwan, for producing 64Mb DRAM chips. The 0,35 micron process will be converted to 0.25 micron for 64Mb and 256Mb Dynamic RAM chips during 1998.

ProMOS Technologies Inc, a joint venture between Taiwanese memory maker Mosel Vitelic and Siemens Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Siemens Microelectronics Inc, have opened a new 8-inch wafer fab in Hsinchu, Taiwan, for producing 64Mb DRAM chips. The 0,35 micron process will be converted to 0.25 micron for 64Mb and 256Mb Dynamic RAM chips during 1998.