Winbond Electronics, which makes NOR flash and niche-market DRAM, is gearing up to accelerate production processes for advanced-technology products, said company chairman Arthur Chiao during a recent company event. Chiao added that Winbond remains focused on reducing costs through manufacturing efficiencies.
Winbond plans to migrate flash production from 90nm to 58nm in mid-2011, and is also scheduled to ramp production of niche-market DRAM using 46nm process technology during the year.
Chiao commented that the business climate for the overall high-tech industry remains healthy and concerns about a slowdown later in 2010 is due to a particularly strong first half of the year. Companies and investors should not be too worried about fourth-quarter performance, Chiao indicated.
Chiao said that prices for memory chips generally trend downward at the end of the year. Therefore, producers should continue shrinking manufacturing process technologies in order to manufacture at lower costs, as well as optimizing their customer structure to respond to price fluctuations, Chiao suggested.
Winbond's revenues for the third quarter of 2010 amounted to NT$8.57 billion (US$278 million), compared to the NT$8.53 billion posted in the second quarter. The company will hold an investors conference on October 29 to detail its financial results for the third quarter.