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Egypt’s Kayan for International Trade will supply apatite ore to fertiliser plants in Viet Nam run by Viet Nam National Chemical Group (Vinachem), leveraging its advantages in supply capacity, competitive pricing, and optimal logistics costs.

It is part of their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation recently signed in New Cairo, Egypt.

Under the MoU, detailed terms covering quality, pricing, delivery schedules, and payment will be finalised in separate commercial contracts in the near future. The deal is designed to help Vinachem secure stable raw material supplies for its fertiliser production amid ongoing volatility in global commodity markets. Vinachem will import through its trading units in Viet Nam.

A Vinachem representative said both sides also agreed to jointly develop markets for Vinachem’s key products, including detergents, tires and tubes, compound fertilisers, batteries, accumulators and other industrial and consumer goods. Kayan for International Trade will serve as a distributor or facilitate Vinachem’s access to distribution channels in the Egyptian market and neighbouring countries in the near term.

This partnership is seen as an opportunity for Vinachem’s industrial and consumer products to gradually penetrate the Middle East - North Africa market, which holds strong demand for chemicals and fertilisers.

The two sides will also establish a Joint Cooperation Steering Committee (JCSC), made up of senior representatives, to regularly review progress, address arising issues, and approve specific cooperation agendas.

According to Vinachem, Kayan for International Trade is one of Egypt’s largest apatite mining and exporting companies, holding about 40% of the domestic market share.

The signing of the MoU is not just a simple “ore import” business story, but also reflects a mindset of cooperation from the root of the supply chain, aligning with Vinachem’s orientation toward high-tech development, green economy, and international market expansion in the new stage.

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I'm so ready to ditch BackBlaze because their timeout errors are causing ~90% of the current problems with the website (external storage move failures and buffering problems).

I have plenty of experience assembling computers and the thought of building a server is really fun, but I've never used colocation before.

Questions/Thoughts/Concerns:

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2. If I ship the server to a more remote location, how would I replace failed drives? Is that a commonly provided service? Would using a datacenter within ~2 hours driving distance be the best compromise between accessibility and location obfuscation?

3. Is paying with Monero an option? Is it a good idea? Could I mail replacement drives directly to the datacenter without revealing my home return address?

It looks like I'll need NVMe drives in something called the U.2 form factor (instead of M.2) in order to enable hot swapping. TIL.

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Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) aims to build two more factories ​in addition to one that will be completed this year, which will more than double its production capacity when ‌all three are up and running, people familiar with the plans said.

China has been keen to wean itself from foreign technologies such as semiconductors - a critical sector that the U.S. has sought to limit Chinese advancements in. This month, a cross-party group of U.S. politicians proposed imposing further restrictions on exports of chipmaking ​tools to China.

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The three new plants will each have the capacity to produce 100,000 wafers per month when fully operational, ​said three sources who were not authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified.

Unlisted YMTC, China's ⁠largest maker of NAND flash memory chips that store data in smartphones and computers, currently has two fabs which can produce a ​combined 200,000 wafers per month, they added.

Its plans for the two new plants as well as details about the factory that is close ​to completion are being reported by Reuters for the first time.

YMTC, one of many Chinese companies that the U.S. restricts sales of goods to, did not respond to a request for comment.

STRONGER TIES WITH DOMESTIC SUPPLIERS

YMTC's third factory, which like its first two plants is located in Wuhan, should start operations late this year ​and be capable of producing 50,000 wafers per month by 2027, according to two of the sources.

The building has been completed and ​the company is currently installing equipment, they said, adding that more than 50% of equipment has been sourced from domestic companies including critical tools used for ‌vertical ⁠stacking of chip layers.

YMTC has intensified collaboration with local suppliers such as Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC)

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since the U.S. Commerce Department added YMTC to its Entity List in December 2022, they said.

AMEC also did not respond to a request for comment.

Reuters was not able to learn target operational dates for the two factories being planned or where they might be located.

RAPID PROGRESS IN TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW

Founded in 2016 in Wuhan with strong ​backing from local government and ​major state-backed chip investment funds, ⁠YMTC has made relatively quick strides in know-how, and analysts say its latest Xtacking 4.0 architecture is on par with products from sector leaders like Samsung Electronics

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Although most of its sales are in China, YMTC ​accounted for 11.8% of the global NAND flash market last year, according to a UBS report. ​While Samsung commands ⁠30.4% of the market, YMTC has the same share as Sandisk

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and is not too far behind SK Hynix

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, Kioxia

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and Micron

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which hold 16%, 15.9% and 13.3% respectively.

UBS predicts YMTC's share will exceed 14% by early 2027.

YMTC is also expanding into DRAM, the memory chips used for temporary ⁠data processing ​in electronic devices.

All three new plants will allocate some capacity to DRAM production, ​two sources said, adding that the exact amount will depend on the company's progress in developing those chips.

YMTC has sent low-power DRAM (LPDDR) samples to clients and expects feedback by ​the end of the year, which will inform DRAM production decisions, they added.

Reporting by Reuters staff; Editing by Miyoung Kim and Edwina Gibbs

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