China's YMTC closes in on NAND leaders as Korea moves upmarket

China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. is rapidly closing in on the world’s top makers of NAND flash memory, scaling production and advancing into higher-layer chips at a faster-than-expected pace. Korean chipmakers, long dominant in the market, are accelerating their shift to advanced nodes to defend their technological lead against a fast-rising Chinese challenger once seen as a clear underdog. According to industry sources on Tuesday, YMTC has pulled forward the timeline for its third-phase

By The Korea Herald