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Numonyx B.V. officially became the latest semiconductor company today, focusing on delivering innovative memory solutions using combinations of leading NOR, NAND and RAM memory technologies as well as new Phase Change Memory (PCM). The new company which has its Assembly and Testing Facilities in Muar, Johor starts as the leading dedicated memory specialist serving customers who make a variety of consumer and industrial devices including cellular phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, ultra-mobile computers and other high-tech equipment.
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Numonyx begins its operations in the growing and dynamic non-volatile memory business market with considerable momentum. The company is the leading provider of NOR flash memory and holds a considerable line-up of NAND technologies for added growth as well as DRAM products that provide unique product depth and value.
The company is currently producing high volume 65nm NOR memory chips and plans to quickly move to 45nm before the end of the year, enabling state-of-the-art technology at lower costs. In addition, Numonyx possesses some of the most sophisticated packaging and stacking techniques in the industry to enable more flexible and space-saving configurations for customers.
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“It is rare when a company starts in such a strong position,” said Brian Harrison, chief executive officer of Numonyx. “The complementary nature of the two parent companies’ products, technologies and expertise has given us a competitive edge. We start with a comprehensive product line-up of leading technologies; dedicated capacity; already leading PCM development and delivery; a highly experienced management team and an amazing employee base of memory experts. Immediately, Numonyx is a formidable memory solutions provider.”
The broad range of leading technologies and products will give Numonyx a unique advantage and flexibility in how it helps solve customer needs – configuring systems with the right balance of density, performance, power and cost.
To meet demands for Numonyx memory chips, the
company will possess both wafer fabrication and assembly and test manufacturing
facilities in addition to holding external supply agreements. These facilities
include six 200 mm and three 300 mm wafer fabs, including Numonyx owned
facilities in Israel, Italy and Singapore. This will give Numonyx the flexibility to produce any combination of
NOR, NAND and RAM wafers depending on customer demand.
With
40 years of combined experience from Intel and STMicroelectronics, Numonyx is receiving a
substanial worldwide patent portfolio from Intel and STMicroelectronics. The
patents and applications cover a variety of technologies including flash memory
and PCM, graphics, cell phones, storage media, processors, semiconductor
manufacturing and packaging, and various consumer devices. Numonyx also brings a history of breakthroughs
and milestones including seven generations of Multi-level Cell (MLC)
technologies.
"Our
broad portfolio of intellectual property, patents and expertise will serve as
the cornerstone for Numonyx. We intend to build on this rich history with even
more innovation." added Harrison.
An example of this,
earlier this month Intel and STMicroelectronics announced that the industry's
first functional prototypes (code named "Alverstone") of a future product using
PCM was being sampled to customers. The parent companies also presented a
research paper describing how they created the world's first demonstrable
high-density, MLC large memory device using PCM technology. PCM is a
promising new memory technology that provides very fast read and write speeds
at lower power than conventional flash, and allows for bit alterability
normally seen in RAM.
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