The world's largest contract chips manufacturer, TSMC company, can purchase a 300-millimeter silicon wafers, which is owned by ProMOS Technologies. ProMOS hopes to get the funds needed to restructure loss-making businesses to produce memory chips, DRAM.
Currently, TSMC is ready to offer about $ 847 million for the industrial facility, but in the auction of company is also involved Globalfoundries, it offers ProMOS about $ 678-1017 million.
In November last year appeared the first mention of interest in ProMOS factories from TSMC and Globalfoundries, exactly three months later, we identified the new owner of memory chips manufacturer. The deal will expand Globalfoundries impact on the Chinese market, while TSMC hopes to speed up the solution with a deficit of 28 nm production.