Russia has not rescued IT Bankrupt Qimonda

On a site of operating company GoIndustry DoveBid Group the equipment of the German manufacturer of microcircuits of memory Qimonda - for polishing of substrates, lithograph, etching, packing and testing of chips is exposed on sale. Auction will last tilll September, 21st, 2009

the equipment Exposed on auction is at factory Qimonda in Dresden. Manufacture on this platform has been suspended in April, and the decision definitively to close factory by the end of this year now is accepted. Most likely, it will sell in parts. Half from 200 serving enterprises, occupied now by equipment service, most likely, will be dismissed.

Qimonda has made the decision on manufacture closing just when other manufacturers of memory have started to inform on growth of demand for the production and, including, about plans on manufacture expansion. The prices for microcircuits DRAM grow, and in some segments of the market even their deficiency is observed.

According to Reuters, other actives Qimonda - namely, manufacture of microcircuits of memory GDDR for video cards, - have interested Japanese Elpida, applying for the post in Top-3 of this segment, after Samsung and Hynix. For this active applies also Taiwan Winbond Electronics, according to DigiTimes. Winbond wishes to licence developed Qimonda technology Buried Wordline and to receive a part of capacities Qimonda on release of chips GDDR-3 and GDDR-5 on the basis of 300-millimetric silicon substrates. According to DigiTimes, interests Elpida and Wnbond, probably, coincide: manufacture of memory of type GDDR for Elpida on technologies Qimonda can adjust on capacities Winbond.

Factory Qimonda in Dresden (on a photo) wwill be closed by the end of the year, the equipment is exposed on sale

Qimonda AG — the German company, in the past one of leading manufacturers of memory of type DRAM (the second in the world by results of first half of calendar 2006, By estimations Gartner Dataquest), the owner of intellectual property. The company is formed as a result of branch from Infineon Technologies in 2006 In August, 2006 has made placing of the actions at the New York stock exchange. Sales Qimonda in 2008 financial year have made €1,8 billion As of January company staff included 12 thousand persons. By estimations of Russian Finama, probable cost Qimonda can make $60 million whereas all some years ago it was ten times above.

In December of last year the government of Germany has found on rescue Qimonda the loan in size €325 million, however these means have not helped. The management tried to find additional means, but unsuccessfully. In January, 2009 the company declared bankruptcy. Ruin principal causes — sharp reduction in demand in an economic crisis and a rigid competition in the market.

Now over the company the temporary head supervises. Search of new investors became its primary goal. But till now to the manufacturer of the chips which factories, except Dresden, are in Portugal, Malaysia and China while the semistate concerns from China and Taiwan have shown interest only. In April of this year there were messages that the Russian government also in purchase Qimonda. In negotiations concerning destiny Qimonda, under messages of the westfrn news agencies, the prime minister Vladimir Putin and the minister of the industry of the Russian Federation Victor Khristenko participated. The Russian companies (in particular, Sitroniks) did not confirm, in the meantime, the interest in an active.