Further technical progress is impossible without close cooperation between producers.
Micron CEO Mark Durkan expressed interest in cooperation with Taiwanese contract manufacturers of semiconductors. Talks with TSMC has already begun, although Micron representatives refused to talk about the specific areas of cooperation . Micron's desire to go beyond the business of producing memory chips. Solid state drives, memory controllers, devices Hybrid Memory Cube and integrated hardware and software solutions.
Micron existing partners in the face of IM Flash, Inotera and Aptina Imaging fear nothing, because the relationships with them will continue . Inotera and Rexchip also preserve the status main industrial partners after purchase of Elpida by Micron . In the market of memory Micron does not set itself the task of increasing the market share, however, after making a deal with Elpida this phenomenon can not be avoided.