Hoping to better battle its rivals, Japanese memory manufacturer Elpida has teamed up with ProMOS Technologies by signing a DRAM foundry agreement. Through the deal Elpida will provide advanced DRAM process and product technologies to ProMOS, while ProMOS will dedicate some of the manufacturing capacity at its Taichung 300mm fab for the production of 1Gb DDR3 chips for, who else but Elpida.

"We are very pleased to enter into this foundry agreement with ProMOS," said Yukio Sakamoto, President and CEO of Elpida Memory. "We are confident that the combination of Elpida's advanced technology and ProMOS's highly-efficient, large-scale DRAM manufacturing capabilities will enable an outstanding supply of high-performance and high-quality DRAM products."

ProMOS is planning to start trial runs for the Elpida 1Gb DDR3 DRAM in the first half of next year and start to mass produce it in the second half.