Winbond to further grow automotive flash sales in 2022

Winbond Electronics is poised to additional broaden its automotive flash giving as a proportion of company income in 2022, as the chipmaker has slice into the offer chains of initially-tier automobile assemblers, according to field sources.

Winbond has disclosed that income created from the automotive and industrial segments make a blended 22% of its overall revenue in 2021. The proportion is predicted to climb this year, said the sources.

Winbond has in latest several years expanded its NOR flash and DRAM offerings for automotive electronics and electrical cars, the resources indicated. The chipmaker used to offer only automotive DDR, and lower- to mid-density NOR chips.

Winbond’s entry into the provide chain of the world’s prime automotive companies will strengthen income of the company’s automotive memory notably flash products and solutions from 2022 onward, the resources believe. The chipmaker has made several flash merchandise for EVs, these kinds of as superior-velocity OctalNAND Flash at densities higher than 512Mb.

Winbond is also upbeat about its automotive battery management IC (BMIC) company. Subsidiary Nuvoton Technology’s BMICs are staying adopted by lots of automobile suppliers for lithium-ion batteries, the corporation mentioned earlier.