TAIPEI -- Intel intends to expand its partnership with Beijing-backed Tsinghua Unigroup by providing NAND flash memory chips as soon as this year, according to industry sources.
Negotiations are leading toward Tsinghua Unigroup's storage arm UNIC Memory Technology receiving NAND chip supplies from Intel, turning those chips into various products such as microSD cards and solid-state drives used in various consumer electronics under its own brand, said an industry source and Avril Wu, an analyst at Taipei-based research firm DRAMeXchange.
