The local court in Munich today appointed Dr. Michael Jaffé, a lawyer
specialized in insolvency law and expert in restructuring, as
preliminary insolvency administrator for Qimonda AG and Qimonda Dresden
OHG. Today, both companies petitioned for the opening of insolvency
proceedings, Qimonda AG due to illiquidity and Qimonda Dresden OHG due
to threatening illiquidity. Together with the Management Board, Dr.
Jaffé will inform employees and the public in a timely and comprehensive
manner about the next steps.
The best-known common insolvency proceedings and restructuring cases
handled by Dr. Michael Jaffé are KirchMedia and KirchBeteiligung, Knaus
Tabbert Group, textile manufacturer TWD and NICI AG.
About Qimonda
Qimonda AG (NYSE: QI) is a leading global memory supplier with a
diversified DRAM product portfolio. The company generated net sales of
Euro 1.79 billion in financial year 2008 and had - prior to its
announcement of a repositioning of its business - approximately 12,200
employees worldwide, of which 1,400 were in Munich, 3,200 in Dresden and
2,800 in Richmond (Virginia, USA). The company provides DRAM products
with a focus on infrastructure and graphics applications, using its
power saving technologies and designs. Qimonda is an active innovator
and brings high performance, low power consumption and small chip sizes
to the market based on its breakthrough Buried Wordline technology.
Further information is available at www.qimonda.com.
Disclaimer
This press release contains forward-looking statements based on
assumptions and forecasts made by Qimonda management and third parties.
Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about our
beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These
statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and
speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to
update any of them in light of new information or future events. These
forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and are subject to a
number of uncertainties, including trends in demand and prices for
semiconductors generally and for our products in particular, the success
of our development efforts, both alone and with our partners, the
success of our efforts to introduce new production processes at our
facilities and the actions of our competitors, the availability of funds
for planned investments and repositioning efforts and the outcome of
antitrust investigations and litigation matters, as well as other
factors. We caution you that these and a number of other known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual future
results, or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in any
forward-looking statement. These factors include those identified under
the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F
which is available without charge on our website and at www.sec.gov.
Media contact for the preliminary
insolvency administrator:
Mr.
Sebastian Brunner
Phone: +49 89 13959633
Mobile: +49 172
8841015
brunner@rw-konzept.de
or
Qimonda
AG
Public Relations
Worldwide Headquarters
Ralph
Heinrich
+49 89 60088 1300
ralph.heinrich@qimonda.com
or
U.S.A.
Glen
Haley
+1 919 677 4554
glen.haley@qimonda.com
or
Asia
Isabel
Chen
+886 2 8170 8177
isabel.chen@qimonda.com
or
Investor
Relations Worldwide
Andreas Schaller
+49 89 60088 1200
andreas.schaller@qimonda.com