DRAM maker Powerchip Technology will be able to reduce its per-chip production costs by 25% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2010, as the company significantly ramps up chip production using 63nm process technology, according to company chairman Frank Huang, as cited by a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
Powerchip has seen yield rates on the 63nm process climb to 90% since September, Huang was quoted by the paper as indicating, adding that the yield maturity would allow his company to gain cost efficiencies and sustain profitability.
In addition, Powerchip plans to start migrating to a 45nm node in the first half of 2011, and complete its transition to the next-generation process technology in the latter half of the year, the paper cited Huang as saying.
Powerchip has received technology support on 6xnm and 45nm processes from Japan's Elpida Memory, which also works with ProMOS Technologies and Rexchip Electronics.