Chip maker GlobalFoundries, which include the chips that AMD produces, would memory manufacturer ProMOS want to take over. GloFo would be the production of ProMOS to get your hands and so its capacity by fifty percent expand
GlobalFoundries, that except for the AMD chips also manufactures for other Samsung, currently has a monthly production capacity of approximately 130,000 wafers of 300mm. That capacity, with factories in the German Dresden and in Singapore, at the end of this year expanded with a factory in New York. For that time the production capacity of GloFo with the acquisition of ProMOS almost be doubled; the factory in Taiwan produces monthly approximately 60,000 300mm wafers.
Those wafers are largely spent on memory chips for Elpida and ProMOS would be its contractual obligations, and also one or two-year commitments. The focus of ProMOS, however, would shift from standard-dram-memory to more specialized memory and controllers for lcd monitors. ProMOS has been a time of financial problems; about 2011, the earnings steadily back.
With the acquisition, which GloFo between 20 and 30 billion Taiwanese dollars it would cost, converted from a half to three quarters of a billion euro, buy GloFo, however, not only production capacity. A Taiwan-based manufacturing facility must GlobalFoundries in a better competitive position with TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and United Microelectronics Corporation, or UMC. Many Taiwanese companies are working with those two producers together, but also Chinese companies with manufacturing facilities in Taiwan better to entice his cooperation.