China's memory race to the new Bureau, won the big fund of Beijing trillion easy innovation and Hefei government signed a contract, will hit the renminbi 18 billion yuan (more than NT $80 billion) to develop 19 nm DRAM technology, the industry expects Gigadevice will be with Hefei Rui Li 12-inch plant resources integration, Overall against the Violet Group under the Yangtze River Storage and UMC Jinhuagong integration, by mastering DRAM, NOR Flash, 2D NAND and other three major technologies, for the mainland memory throne. At present, the mainland memory industry has three forces fierce rivalry, respectively for the Purple group of the Yangtze River storage, UMC of Fujian Jinhuagong, as well as Hefei government-led integration of the core force, in which the mysterious Hefei Rui Power has already spread to the mainland nor flash manufacturers Gigadevice also involved in this program, September Mainland Big Fund announced a stake in Gigadevice about 11% stake, become the second largest shareholder, Gigadevice memory layout floating on the table. Recently, Gigadevice announced a cooperation agreement with Hefei Industrial Investment holding Group, developed a 19 nm process of 12-inch wafer dram, the budget of 18 billion yuan, Gigadevice contribution 20%, the goal of the end of December 2018 successful research and development, Time history planning is very close to UMC jinhuagong DRAM layout. According to mutual agreement, the production of DRAM will give priority to supply Gigadevice, in Hefei Rui Force 12 inch DRAM capacity injection, combined with the existing nor flash and 2D NAND product line, it is expected to let Gigadevice in the memory industry in the posture of the Black Horse. Gigadevice was founded in April 2005, is one of the world's five nor flash suppliers, the other 4 for Cypress, the United States Light, Macronix, China, Gigadevice also has 38 and 24 nano-SLC and MLC NAND products, and open up the microprocessor (MCU) product line , takes all logic and memory fields. Gigadevice for the big-time DRAM has ambitions, the original fund selection and Violet group cooperation, Gigadevice did not give up, trying to eat the U.S. business silicon into (ISSI) as a DRAM research and development base, but the cooperation case broke the Bureau, Gigadevice to participate in Hefei Rui Power's research and development plan, let the three major memory camp layout more clear. Hefei government for the memory program has been a great interest, in a multi-party, to find the application materials (smartfactory™ Materials), SMIC, Huahong nec Wang to dominate the case, the former Juayaco senior Liu Davi also joined Hefei Rui Li, more importantly, Hefei is in urgent need of listed companies to participate in the case, and Gigadevice is it. Hefei Rui Force announced in early 2017 to 7.2 billion U.S. dollars (more than NT $200 billion) to build 12-inch wafer factory, is expected to maximum one-month production capacity of 125,000 tablets, the recent Hefei Rui Power began contact with the silicon wafer factory to ensure that a fairly out of the trial-run wafer. Gigadevice and Hefei Rui Li cooperation floating on the stage, fear to the mainland memory map great shock, although the Yangtze River storage is mainly research and development of 3D NAND, but both sides have a big fund stakes, the future will be competing to rob Resources, the industry is talking. In addition, the DRAM production time of Hefei Rui Li and UMC Jinhuagong is quite close, at the end of 2018, who can rob the first volume of the mainland to produce DRAM head incense, can be stable sitting on the mainland memory of a brother, the past is quite low-key, now Gigadevice joined, many layout will emerge, Continental Memory War 2018 will be crucial.
