July 4, 2024 /SemiMedia/ -- According to reports, Chinese memory chip maker Longsys announced that its Brazilian subsidiary Zilia has begun packaging and producing Longsys memory products.

On November 30, 2023, Longsys successfully acquired Zilia (formerly SMART Modular Brasil), a leading Brazilian semiconductor and electronic component company, and changed its name to Zilia Technologies. It plans to manufacture dedicated memory in Brazil, customize high-end storage products for the Brazilian market, and expand the overall American market.

The new product line launched in Zilia Brazil will introduce Longsys' advanced manufacturing equipment, product technology and packaging technology to enhance Zilia Brazil's production capacity in the fields of embedded memory (eMMC, UFS), memory modules, solid-state drives (SSDs), etc., thereby meeting the American market's demand for local manufacturing in the Americas.

At the same time, Zilia Brazil announced an investment plan of 650 million reais (approximated $117 million), of which 175 million reais will be used for R&D innovation, including key R&D investment, system process improvement and engineering personnel training, and 475 million reais will be used to expand existing production capacity, including packaging and testing (Atibaia, Sao Paulo) and assembly of semiconductor-based electronic devices (Manaus, Amazonas).