back to article China’s chip shop makes dash for flash with huge new fab

The Tsinghua Unigroup is spear-heading China’s dash to get its own flash fab off the ground. Filed plans show pilot production starting in 18 months. According to Stifel MD Aaron Rakers who has looked into the Tongfang Guoxin filing, the plant will build NAND and NOR flash wafers, not DRAM, with a 120,000 wafer starts/month ( …

  1. Trollslayer
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    A rendition of the proposed plant?

    It will be kidnapped and put on a plane?

    El Reg - please employ people who have English as a first language, the standards have plummeted in the past six months.

    1. Mike Shepherd

      Re: A rendition of the proposed plant?

      As you will know from primary school, "the standards..." is a separate sentence, so it must begin with a capital letter and the comma should be a full stop.

  2. Slumberthud

    At least they were honest and put smog in the drawing.

  3. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Is that

    a nuclear power plant on the rendering?

  4. Paul J Turner

    I don't believe it

    They're building a brand new fab to produce flash just when everybody is hot and sweaty for Xpoint memory which will make it all obsolete? Pull the other one.

  5. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Chip shop?

    My favourite is still this one.

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