Macronix, the world’s biggest supplier of NOR flash memory chips, said its factories have been running at full capacity and are dealing with additional requests for chips. China’s GigaDevice Semiconductor (Beijing) Inc (北京兆易) is a chip designer and is reliant on capacity supply from Chinese foundries, which would be limited given healthy market demand, Wu said. Macronix supplies memory chips to most automakers in Germany, Japan, South Korea and the US, and an automotive chip shortage would help the company gain market share, he said. Macronix is still in talks with several potential buyers to sell a 30-year-old 6-inch fab, Wu said. Macronix has budgeted NT$3 billion (US$105.07 million) on capital expenditure this year, the company said, adding that it would raise the figure if needed.

Source: Taipei Times March 29, 2021 15:56 UTC