Elpida mulls partial shift to Taiwan

TOKYO/TAIPEI: Elpida Memory Inc, Japan’s biggest maker of DRAM memory chips, is considering shifting some production to Taiwan to cope with a currency near record highs and to survive in a dwindling market. The world’s No. 3 dynamic random-access memory maker behind Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, is battling to boost its competitiveness in a market torn by oversupply and depressed …
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