This week, Intel announced a flash memory co-operation with Micron will be terminated in early 2019, except for 3D Xpoint R & D at its Lehi facility in Utah.
In essence, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), a joint venture between the two companies, was 'in name only' in 2012, when Intel sold almost all its shares to Micron.
Of course, Intel does not seem to intend to block a martial arts, but chose a new partner.
According to Digitimes reports, Intel is expected to cooperate with China's Tsinghua Unisplendour 3D flash memory related matters For example, one possible way is technology licensing.
Currently, Ziguang invested 30 billion US dollars in Nanjing to build its own DRAM memory, NAND flash memory factory, just married and Lite, in Suzhou to build an SSD solid state drive development and manufacturing plant.
However, Intel can grasp the sophisticated technology of flash memory, and the current accumulation of purple light should not be enough to support the former estimates do not .. Reported that, Intel is thinking about technology for the market.
In addition, without Micron flash factory, Intel will further increase investment in Dalian semiconductor factory.
