Firms predict it will make them big money
Customers are pushing companies to move to DDR3.
Memory packaging and testing firms Powertech, Formosa and
Walton estimate DDR3 will contribute 90 per cent of their
overall DRAM shipments by the end of next year. Currently it makes up
half of their shipments.
Powertech chairman DK Tsai plans to step up investment in
high-speed testers for DDR3 chips and expand NAND flash chip
capacity. Formosa said that spending for 2010 will mainly focus on
purchases of high-speed testers, and capacity expansion for memory
packaging and LED chips. Walton said it will add 10 more sets of high-speed
testers, which do not include 5593 ones, for a total of 17 sets by the end of
2010.
DDR3 is forecast to account for 90 per cent of Walton's
overall DRAM revenues at the end of 2010, up from 20-30 per cent.