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Micron sees demand rising for its Made-in-Singapore flash memory chips amid AI boom

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oschip08 - Artist impression of Micron's new HBM chip plant in Singapore


Source: Micron Technology

An artist’s impression of Micron’s new advanced packaging plant for high bandwidth memory in Singapore, now under construction.

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SINGAPORE - The explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) has started to spread out from data centres to consumer devices such as smartphones and laptops that use portable flash memory chips.

This is good news for Singapore, where US memory chip giant Micron Technology manufactures about 98 per cent of its top-end flash memory chips, referred to as Nand by the industry. Singapore, hence, is designated by the company as its Nand Centre of Excellence.

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