What's that surging down the Yangtze? It's a 3D NAND flash flood

China's Yangtze River Storage Technology (YMTC) has started building a 3D NAND flash plant. YMTC, through its ownership of contract chip manufacturer XMC, has started building a memory semiconductor fab on a 13-hectare site at the Donghu New Technology Development Zone in Wuhan. Tsinghua Unigroup, which owns 51.04 per cent of …

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7 12" wafers per minute, 24/7

3 parallel lines - fine, that's 'only' a wafer per 30 seconds per line. But how many steps are there to bake a 3D NAND wafer? Hundreds? Thousands?

I know this stuff's all kinda secretive, but is there any wafer-fab pron out there? I'm about as horrified / fascinated by this stuff as I am by the logistics of making half a million iphones every single day...

[Mikel]

Incoming market glut of flash storage

That's good news for the consumer. And bad news for spinning rust.

[PNGuinn]

Flash flood meets flash flood ...

Hope they don't build it too near to the river ......

Thanks - it's the one with the buoyancy aids in the pocketses.