Ramtron, IBM Enter Manufacturing Agreement
Staff -- Semiconductor International, 2/1/1998
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Ramtron, IBM Enter Manufacturing Agreement
Ramtron International Corp.'s (Colorado Springs, Colo.) wholly owned subsidiary, Enhanced Memory Systems Inc., announced an agreement with IBM Microelectronics to manufacture the enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM) chip. Under the agreement, IBM will provide Enhanced with a production source for ESDRAM chips. In addition, IBM will be awarded a non-exclusive license to produce and sell ESDRAM chips to its own internal and external markets.
Production at IBM's Essex Junction, Vt., facility is expected to begin during the first quarter of 1998. ESDRAM components will be manufactured on IBM's high-volume, 16Mb 0.35 µm DRAM production process using 200 mm wafers.
The ESDRAM has been proposed as the SDRAM superset standard at the quarterly Joint Electron Devices Engineering Councils (JEDEC) DRAM meetings in Taiwan in September and Phoenix, Ariz., in December. PS
Semiconductor International / February 1998
