Elpida buys Qimonda's GDDR-technology

In January, German memory manufacturer Qimonda reported financial issues. Earlier this week, Elpida released a statement that it has taken over the Qimonda company, allowing Elpida to enter the GDDR-memory market. Up till now, Elpida only created DRAM-memory chips for DDR3/DDR2/DDR-modules, SDRAM, Mobile RAM and XDR DRAM (the successor to the Rambus RDRAM, which is used in Sony's Playstation 3).

Elpida reports that the development of GDDR-memory will be continued by former Qimonda technicians in the recently built Elpida Munich Design Center. It's expected that the first 1 gigabit GDDR3- and GDDR5-chips are to be shipped in the first half of 2010. The production is outsourced to one of Qimonda's old partners; the Taiwanese Winbond Electronics.

Elpida also states that it has created a mixed Japanese and German development team to create 2 Gigabit GDDR5-chips. Mass production of these chips will be done in Elpida's own factory, located in Hiroshima. These chips are to be expected in the second half of 2010.

Tags: ddr2 ddr3 gddr5

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