Elpida Memory (Elpida), global supplier of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in Japan, has entered into a multi-year partnership with IMEC, Europe's independent nanoelectronics research center, to perform research and development for beyond 50nm DRAM process generations. With this agreement, DRAM suppliers including Elpida, Micron, Samsung and Qimonda, collaborate within IMEC's research platform, together with logic IDM's and foundries.
The platform also brings together semiconductor industry players from IDM's, foundries, memory companies, equipment and material suppliers with increasing participation of fabless and fablite companies. A team of researchers of Elpida will start collaborating closely with IMEC's researchers to build up fundamental understanding and to develop robust solutions for front-end-of-line memory technologies in order to perform research and development for beyond 50nm DRAM process generations.
Gilbert Declerck, president and CEO of IMEC, said, "We are excited that Elpida has joined our research platform. We are convinced that their valuable know-how in memory scaling will be an important asset for our global research platform. By concluding strong partnerships with different company clusters, both in logic and memory, IMEC aim to provide an answer to the needs and priorities of all the players in the semiconductor supply chain."
Sakamoto, president and CEO of Elpida, stated, "R&D cost and the challenges to develop beyond 50nm DRAM process generations are increasing at rapid pace requiring research partnerships to ensure competitive time-to-market of new products. By joining IMEC's large network of partners including the memory suppliers, we will be able to maintain our position in the DRAM market."
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