Hot: China's YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu

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Subscribe to our newsletter One of China's largest chip manufacturers has apparently made plans to build two additional new foundries to the one already under construction.

Once all are operational, it's claimed that the firm's wafer output will more than double, which could potentially make it one of the world's largest makers of NAND flash memory chips.The firm in question is Yangtze Memory Technologies, better known simply as YMTC, and its flash memory is heavily used by the likes of Acer, Adata, Lexar, and Team Group for their SSDs and other storage devices ## Editor's Note This is an interesting development that could shape the future of gaming. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ssds/chinas-ymtc-is-reportedly-aiming-to-more-than-double-its-wafer-production-which-could-eventually-help-put-cheap-gaming-ssds-back-on-the-menu/)