SITUATION ‘NORMAL’: Winbond chairman Arthur Chiao said the company has no major changes planned amid a US-China trade dispute, saying it would be short-term

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 15, 2019
By Lisa Wang  /  Staff reporter

Winbond Electronics Corp (華邦電子), the world’s biggest maker of NOR flash memory chips by shipment, yesterday said that customer demand has regained traction, a sign that the global memory industry has come out of the woods.

A supplier of niche memory chips, Winbond said that it did not plan to make a drastic capacity adjustment to counteract the short-term trade shock, given its bullish view of the long-term market.

Winbond is to continue with its NT$355 billion (US$11.3 billion) investment to build a 12-inch fab in Kaohsiung to meet rising customer demand, it said.

Construction began in October last year.

The factory is to start mass production in 2021 using 20 nanometer technology, it said.    [FULL  STORY]