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Macronix International Co., Ltd. (MXIC)

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No. 16, Li-Hsin Road,; Science-Based Industrial Park Hsinchu 300 Taiwan, R.O.C.
T 886-3-5786688 F 886-3-563-2888 www.macronix.com

General Information

Year Founded: 1989 Number of Employees: 3500

Macronix is a leading provider of innovative nonvolatile memory (NVM) semiconductor solutions, ranked No. 1 in ROM & Serial Flash and No. 4 in NOR Flash industry respectively. Being the largest and the most advanced supplier of ROM products worldwide, Macronix currently produces a wide range of Parallel and Serial NOR Flash products. Our flash products address the nonvolatile memory requirements in embedded, consumer, computer, networking and enterprise applications.

We are one of the very few suppliers offering Serial Flash products from 512Kbit to 256Mbit densities. Macronix also provides Flash products with extremely small packages as well as very thin packages in space-constrained applications to satisfy the market demand. In our ROM Business, XtraROM products with 65-nanometer process have been delivered. Macronix also offers a Known Good Die (KGD) program for System In Package (SIP) solutions.

Macronix owns one 8-inch wafer fab (Fab 2) and one 6-inch wafer fab (Fab 1). Macronix designs and fabricates its nonvolatile memory products in Fab 2. Fab 1 focuses on strategic foundry business for niche logic products. To provide substantial capacity and deliver advanced comprehensive memory solutions to fulfill our customers' growing demand for their long-term growth, Macronix have purchased a 12-inch wafer fab. The transaction will be completed in 3Q 2010.

The company has been dedicating the averaged 12~14% of its annual revenue to Research and Development. Our technical papers have been published and presented in major international conferences, such as IEDM and ISSCC. Macronix has been granted more than 3,600 patents and continues its investment in advanced technology development.

To provide the next generation of nonvolatile memory solutions, Macronix is jointly developing technology for Phase Change memories along with its high technology alliance partners in the world. We also announced the world's first Flash prospective technology, BE-SONOS.

Latest Headline

Macronix Develops New 3D NAND Flash Technology

Market Type

• Data Processing / PC Electronics - Memory - Flash / Nonvolatile

Product Type

• Flash

Process Nodes

• 65nm
• 130nm
• 180nm
• Other
• 75nm, 100nm, 150nm