Micron will increase investment in Taiwan, China, or focus on HBM

2024-08-13 12:02:28

According to industry sources, Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra's visit to Taiwan in July this year will bring further cooperation, such as high bandwidth memory (HBM), which plays an important role in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. It is reported that Micron will increase its investment in Taiwan, China, in addition to manufacturing HBM advanced processes, does not rule out the opportunity to create a second R&D center in Taiwan, China.

It is reported that China's Taiwan economic department applied for the pilot enterprise research and development in-depth plan (Big A+) in May 2021, proposed the DRAM advanced technology and high bandwidth memory research and development pilot plan, set up the first research and development center in Taiwan, China, and received a subsidy of NT $4.7 billion, and will research and development advanced process production in Taiwan, China.

In 2021, Micron applied for the first research and development center in Taiwan, China, and set up factories in Taichung and Taoyuan with the most advanced manufacturing processes. Before the chip design manufacturers AMD, Nvidia, Infineon and other companies have announced to set up research and development centers in Taiwan, China.

China's Taiwan economic department said that Micron will increase investment in Taiwan, China, will manufacture HBM, Taiwan is an important production base of Micron, Micron increased investment in Taiwan, China can be close to important customers TSMC. In addition, people familiar with the matter said that Micron actively invested in HBM process technology improvement, new storage high-speed computing, its competitors SK Hynix and Samsung, in response to the demand for customized HBM, have recently actively cooperated with the supply chain to improve process manufacturing and sealing test capabilities, Micron is also expected to plan to increase investment in Taiwan, China, still need to be agreed by its board of directors, will be officially announced.

 

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