Taiwan researcher ITRI seeks talks with Taiwan Memory

21.04.2009
A Taiwanese research group developing new memory chip technologies hopes to open talks with the government's new chip maker, Taiwan Memory Co. (TMC) about ways to work together.

Researchers at Taiwan's publicly funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), which has been developing a number of new memory chip technologies, including RRAM (Resistive RAM), MRAM (magnetoresistive RAM) and PRAM (phase-change RAM), say they have not been approached by the government or TMC to work together on new chip technologies, despite a drumbeat of proclamations by officials and TMC executives that new technologies are the main focus of the company.

"When this company is formed, when it is real, we would like to talk to them," said Tsai Ming-jinn, research director in the Nanoelectronic Technology Division at ITRI.