"If I remember INTEL sold off their flash chip manufactoring?'

05/08/2006

"Is Intel spinning off NOR flash unit?"

"Still, many believe that Intel is putting more resources in rival NAND flash, which is growing much faster than NOR. The chip giant also has a joint NAND flash memory venture with Micron Technology Inc., dubbed IM Flash Technologies LLC."

"If Intel spins out the NOR unit, the move would mirror a similar step taken by processor rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). Last year, AMD spun-out its NOR unit, Spansion LLC, into a new and independent company. Many NOR flash vendors have been scrambling to provide a NAND offering due to dwindling sales for NOR."

http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_880041...

Intel to restructure NOR flash business

"Both Intel and STM are expected to sell their NOR flash businesses to a private firm, and the three entities would hold equal stakes in the combined business. The private group would invest $3 billion into the venture, the source said."

"Intel, which first came to Israel in 1974, currently employs approximately 7,000 workers at its facilities throughout the country. The company is in the process of building a new $3.5 billion Fab 28 facility in Kiryat Gat to be completed in the middle of 2008."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...

INTEL Sells Its NOR Flash Fab

"INTEL feels when something isn't working on one of its businesses and on many occasions prefers to sell the dying product line rather than to pump some more money into it."

"Fab 28 will be surely sold leaving INTEL outside of the flash-making"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/INTEL...

Intel is now in the NAND flash business with Micron and Lexar......under the name IM Flash Techonlogies.

Amazing how it's all come about since my following NOR vs. NAND, I could see then where it was going.....and here we are.

e.Digital patents prefer the matrix of NAND.....and here we are.

doni