In the flash memory market production South Korean company SK Hynix ranks fifth today. It goes behind the Samsung, Toshiba, SanDisk and Micron Technology companies, although ahead of Intel. However, Intel had not had any requests for a significant chunk of flash memory market. It gradually went on to participate in the production of NAND-flash, giving the work a partner in the joint venture - company Micron. But last year everything changed. Intel has announced the investment project in China's own production - factory in Dalian. This Factory will receive investments in the amount of more than $ 5 billion. To prepare for the production of non-volatile memory such as 3D NAND and 3D XPoint. In other words, Intel intends to launch a serious attack on the market of flash memory.
The company SK Hynix also are aware that the demand for flash memory will grow . Therefore, last summer was approved plan of production for the period until 2025, during which the company was going to build two semiconductor plant. For these purposes it was planned to spend about $ 26 billion.
As reported by Japanese sources with reference to SK Hynix management, factory will have an area of about 250 thousand sq. Meters will be built near the city of Cheongju. The amount of investment in construction will be $ 12.5 billion The construction will start in 2018 and commissioning -. In 2019.