[Thursday 20 May 2010]

Inotera Memory, a DRAM-manufacturing joint venture between Micron Technology and Nanya Technology, recently announced three separate purchases totaling around NT$5.69 billion (US$177 million) from lithography equipment supplier ASML.

Inotera has said it is set to move Micron's 50nm stack to mass production in the third quarter of 2010, and completely shift to the node in the fourth. It also revealed plans to start trial runs on Micron's 42nm design during the second half of the year.

Inotera's capex goal for 2010 is NT$52 billion, compared to NT$13 billion allocated in 2009, and NT$20 billion in 2007. It spent NT$14 billion, around 27% of the full-year budget, in the first quarter.