Group Management

The Elpida Memory corporate group consists of Elpida Memory, Inc. (hereafter, Elpida), one domestic subsidiary, seven overseas subsidiaries and two equity-method affiliates. Elpida mainly develops, designs and manufactures DRAM products, sells products to domestic customers and supplies products to overseas subsidiaries. It also controls all group tasks (accounting and finance, office administration, legal affairs, marketing, production management, etc.). Wholly-owned subsidiaries, Akita Elpida Memory, Inc., mainly handle the assembly & testing processes. Our seven overseas subsidiaries, which are located in North America, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, are responsible for sales of Elpida's DRAM products to customers around the world. Lastly, Tera Probe, Inc., an equity-method affiliate, mainly handles semiconductor manufacturing wafer-testing processes.

The following is the chart of operations described above: