InfineonInfineon Technologies is headquartered in GermanyMunich, Germany's largest semiconductor product manufacturer, is a creative leader in the international semiconductor industryFrankfurtListing code:IFX。
QimondaAG is a company established byInfineonThe new memory company split from the technology company is the second largest DRAM company in the world, 300mmwafer Industrial leaders and personal computersThe serverOne of the largest suppliers of DRAM products in the market.Qimonda is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infineon, headquartered in GermanyMunichIn fiscal year 2006, the net sales volume was 4.89 billion yuan, and the profit before tax and interest was 259 million yuan.
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Its predecessor is the semiconductor division of Siemens Group, which was independent in 1999 and listed in 2000.Its Chinese name is Yiheng Technology, which was changed toInfineon Technology。Design, develop, produce and sell a wide range of semiconductors and complete system solutions for specific fields.The products are widely used in wired and wireless communication fields, automotive and industrial electronics, computer security and chip card markets.The product suite consists of memory and logical products, including digitalMixed signalAnd analog IC（Integrated circuit）, discrete semiconductor devices and system solutions.The memory department was independently listed as Qimonda on July 1, 2006.
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Qimonda has about 12000 employees worldwide, including 1800 research and development personnel;Five 300mm on three continentswafer The production base operates five major research and development facilities, includingDresdenLeading research and development center.The company used to focus on personal computers and server products, but now it focuses on image, mobile devices and consumer applications using its power saving deep channel capacitor technology.On August 9, 2006, Qimonda's sharesNew York stock exchange Issued under the symbol QI.The company has issued a total of 42 millionAmerican Depositary Shares(ADS), each share is equal to one Qimonda sharecommon stock。
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Qimonda's business mainly focuses on DRAM memory.Including DRAM in the computer hostMemory module, video memory granule of computer display card, consumer DRAM memory, high-speed DRAM in removable storage devicecache。In additionFlash MemoryMemory chip。In addition, Qimonda is also involved in home game consoles, for example,NintendoWii game console uses QimondaGDDR3Graphics memory.
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Qimonda's fields in China include: R&D and design;Marketing and sales, production and other fields.Qimonda will mainly carry out 300mmwafer Produce and provide DRAM products in PC and server markets.The company also hopes to succeed inProduct extensionTo graphics, mobile communications and consumer fields guided by low-power trench technology.Qimonda has a production base and IT R&D center in Suzhou, a product R&D center in Xi'an, a sales center in Shanghai, and sales branches in Beijing and Shenzhen
On January 23, 2009, the company applied to the court for bankruptcy protection.
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What does Qimonda mean?
Qimonda's name and brand consistently express the company's outlook on life and personality, and illustrate its vision and value.The word "Qimonda" has different meanings and is related to different languages. "Qi" means the energy (energy) of breath and flow, while "monda" means "world" in Latin;Intuitively, it can be interpreted as "key monda".
Qimonda was the first to actually convert to 300mmwafer It is one of the suppliers of DRAM technology. About two thirds of DRAM blocks are produced using 300mm wafers.
On September 18, 2006, Qimonda and South Asia Technology Company jointly announced the successful development of 75nm DRAM deep trench technology. Compared with the previous 90nm process, the 75nm process further reduced the size of the chip, thus increasing the divisibility of each wafer by about 40%.
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In its parent companyInfineonThe German DRAM manufacturer Qimonda announced bankruptcy on January 23 with the refusal of the German federal government to provide financial support, which shocked the global DRAM industry!After Qimonda said goodbye to Huayako in 2008,Global partnersOnly Huabang is left.DRAM manufacturers estimated that someone was finally out of the DRAM battle, burning about 10% of Qimonda's market share in the world. It was estimated that the price of DDR2 had a chance to return to the cash cost of $1.5.It is worth noting that the accounts receivable of Huayako to Qimonda are still up to NT $3 billion. If it is unable to recover them, it may expand the recognition of losses in the first quarter;Huabang pointed out that all shipments to Qimonda have been suspended.
The global DRAM plants have fallen into a serious crisis of oversupply and have applied to governments for rescue. Qimonda's operations have fallen into a serious bankruptcy crisis in the past two years.In December 2008, the German governmentInfineonAnd Portugal State Bank applied for 325 million yuaneuroThe bailout fund (equivalent to 422 million US dollars) was originally believed that Qimonda would survive the DRAM industry depression with the full support of the government, but the whole situation would change greatly in the end of the ugly year.
Qimonda officially announced on the 23rd that under the circumstances that its parent company Infineon refused to inject funds again, and the German government also decided to let go and no longer give financial assistance, it had applied for a bankruptcy order for insolvency, which shocked the global memory industry and was the first memory manufacturer to be collapsed under the wave of DRAM price war.
According to the memory manufacturer, the German government refused to provide financial assistance at the last moment, mainly because Qimonda lion opened its mouth and asked for an additional 300 million euros in addition to the 325 million euros in bailout fundseuroOfworking capitalA total of 600 million euros was demanded, so the German government found that if it invested 300 million euros this time, it would not only have no chance to recycle, but would become a Qimonda ATM in the future.Therefore, he refused to fund Qimonda again, while the majority shareholderInfineonEven more, Qimonda refused to take any more money, so Qimonda had to declare bankruptcy.
Inspur GroupThe company acquired more than 100 million yuan of assets of Qimonda China R&D Center, a global storage giant, with 30 million yuan. On August 12, 2009, the two sides held a handover ceremony in Xi'an.This isGlobal financial crisisSince then, a successful "bottom copying" action in China's IT industry is expected to rewrite China's long history of chip imports.
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Qimonda's industrial scale ranks the third in the world in the storage industry, especially its chip R&D capability. The two most important R&D centers are Munich R&D Center and China R&D Center (located inXi'an High tech Zone）。Affected by the financial crisis, Qimonda applied for bankruptcy protection. Inspur Group seized the opportunity to defeat its competitors in Japan and the United States, and acquired equipment and technology worth more than 100 million yuan with an ultra-low capital of 30 million yuan.
