The $3 billion facility will produce 22-nm NAND Flash memory processes at first, according to both companies, before implementing 20-nm NAND Flash memory process technology later this year.

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash ... non-volatile semiconductor storage technologies like EPROM, EEPROM and flash memory.

YMTC is known for its design and fabrication of 3D NAND, a flash memory in which transistor ... making significant progress in building up its semiconductor self-sufficiency amid US technology ...