1989 headquarters taiwan website www.macronix.com macronix is an integrated device manufacturer in the non volatile memory nvm market . the company manufactures nor flash nand flash and rom products for the consumer communication computing automotive and networking markets . its headquarters are located in taiwan history edit macronix was established in 1989 . in 1997 the company was a global supplier of mask rom and eproms . 1 in 2012 the company developed a process to prolong the life of solid state drives . 2 macronix developed specialized memory chips for the consumer electronics industry including those used in nintendo s 3ds handheld game console 3 4 and samsung s wearable electronic devices . 5 in 2014 the company had around 4 500 employees and a capitalization of nt 33.8 billion as of 2011 12 31 . total revenue was nt 22.4 billion although the company experienced overall operating losses . 5 that year macronix was involved in an unsuccessful patent infringement legal battle with competitor spansion inc. 6 7 in 2016 macronix has branches in europe usa japan korea singapore and china and is the largest supplier of mask rom market in the world . the company continues to experience operating losses and its credit rating on the taiwan stock exchange was downgraded . 8 references edit chung shing lee ; michael pecht 7 february 1997 . electronics industry in taiwan . crc press . pp. 88 . isbn 978 0 8493 3170 1 . macronix self healing ssds last ten times longer . pc gamer dave james december 05 2012 nintendo s mysterious new console may be ditching discs altogether . tech insider jul. 26 2016 . ben gilbert and tim mulkerin nintendo nx s big secret is out and could change everything . daily star james wright 9th may 2016 a b macronix shares rise on samsung news . taipei news apr 17 2014 lisa w ang spansion scores win against macronix in patent spat hailey lynne mckeefry . e e times 3 14 2014 winston & strawn sues client over 1.8 m patent fight tab . law 360 by jack newsham macronix remains in the red . jessie shen digitimes taipei 28 july 2016 external links edit company overview retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title macronix & oldid 738867729 categories semiconductor companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages edit links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 15 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view