Two memory packagers are joining forces to serve Brazil’s fast-growing chip market, with BIWIN Semiconductor and Tera Industria de Semicondutores signing a strategic partnership framework to manufacture and distribute memory and storage locally.
Under the agreement, the companies will cooperate on equipment consignment, technical exchange and industrial production, using Tera’s Manaus facility, which sits within Brazil’s Digitron Group, as the manufacturing base.
Brazil is an attractive market for the pair because of strong government industrial incentives and mandatory localization rules. The country grants fiscal benefits to companies making smartphones and computers locally, and key memory components, including RAM, NAND flash, SSD modules and DDR4 and DDR5 modules, face localization mandates of roughly 50 percent.
BIWIN, a Hong Kong-based provider of memory and storage packaging, will offer Brazilian OEMs a locally made product line spanning eMMC and UFS embedded storage, DDR4, DDR5 and LPDDR modules, PCIe NVMe SSDs and industrial-grade memory.
“By combining BIWIN’s industry-leading memory and storage expertise with Tera’s established local manufacturing capabilities and deep relationships with Brazilian OEMs, we are creating a powerful platform to serve one of the world’s most dynamic technology markets,” said Will Lin, managing director of BIWIN Technology.
The partnership is the latest sign of memory supply chains moving closer to end markets as AI-fueled demand and trade rules reshape where chips are assembled and packaged.
