The Japanese company elpida, which is occupied by the production of memory, actively collaborates with small Taiwan producers. For example, together with Winbond it produces GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
Elpida examines the possibility of shares block acquisition from the Taiwan memory producers in the size from 20% to 30%. Possible candidates are Powerchip, ProMOS and Winbond. These producers in the present year could not obtain the necessary investments from the Taiwan government, but survive without them will be very complicated. In the beginning of 2011 elpida plan to leave the Taiwan stock exchange for the collection of additional means for the development.
It is remarkable, that in the collaboration are interested both sides. To Taiwan producers it is complicated to fight with the South Korean giants, and Elpida needs the expansion of production capacities. Thus, soon we will be able to observe the association of memory Taiwan producers .