Micron enters NAND Flash market
Jan du Preez, Micron's vice-president of Networking and Communication, reports: "Micron is entering the NAND market aggressively, starting with the introduction of our first device on 90nm followed by process migrations to 72nm and then 58nm. Our NAND roadmap reflects multiple configurations and density migrations up to 16Gbits. We anticipate ramping production quickly to meet the forecasted market demand."
Micron anticipates bringing its first NAND Flash solution to market by the end of the year. The 2Gbit component is aimed at a Flash card market starting to transition from 128MByte to 256MByte density NAND cards as the volume leader.
Micron has been diversifying its production capabilities for some time in an effort to ameliorate the mood swings of its core DRAM market. Diversification products now include NAND Flash, CellularRAM devices for mobile phone applications, RLDRAM II reduced latency network and cache memory devices and CMOS image sensors. All the diversified ICs use MicronÕs core DRAM product and process technology.
