Construction on the world's largest memory chip plant, a joint venture between Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技), Taiwan's No. 1 computer-memory chipmaker, and German semi-conductor giant Infineon Technologies AG, is set to begin today.
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was invited to witness the ceremony presided by Wang Yung-ching (王永慶), chairman of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group (台塑集團), the parent company of Nanya, CNA reported.
The plant is to be located in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, close to Nanya's current production facility, and should begin producing 300mm DRAM (dynamic random accesss memory) chips in late next year using 0.09-micron production technology.
Each company has shouldered a 550 million-euro (dollar) investment into the plant over the next three years and would double the investment as the facility's capacity expands to 50,000 wafers by mid-2006.
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