Inotera Memories, Inc. () was a company incorporated as a joint venture between Nanya Technology Corporation and

Infineon Infineon Semiconductor solutions is the largest microcontroller manufacturer in the world, as well as Germany's largest semiconductor manufacturer. It is also the leading automotive semiconductor manufacturer globally. Infineon had roughly 58,0 ...

(later

Qimonda Qimonda Aktiengesellschaft, AG ( ) was a German DRAM, memory company split out of Infineon Technologies (itself a spun off business unit of Siemens AG) on 1 May 2006 to form at the time the second largest DRAM company worldwide, according to the ...

) in Taiwan in January 2003. The company was acquired by

Micron Technology Micron Technology, Inc. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and solid-state drives (SSDs). It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Micron's consumer produc ...

in 2016. It was renamed to Micron Technology Taiwan, Inc. and became one of Micron's manufacturing locations.

History

In 2008, Micron Technology acquired a 35.5% stake in Inotera from Qimonda as Qimonda underwent restructuring. The Company reached full conversion to 70 nm shrink technology at the end of June 2008 and started pilot production of Micron’s 50 nm stack process technology from the third quarter of 2009 in order to further improve the productivity and to reduce manufacturing unit cost. In January 2013, Micron announced an amendment to the joint development agreement with Nanya that gave

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access to all of Inotera's manufacturing output based on market pricing. In December 2016, Micron completed the acquisition at a transaction value of approximately US$4.0 billion.

References

External links

Micron.com - Inotera Is Now Micron
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