Is Russia eyeing Qimonda ?!

Vladimir Putin in Dresden held talks with Saxon’s President Stanislaw Tillich, after which the Saxon administration announced that Russia might be interested in buying a bankrupt DRAM manufacturer.
An indirect confirmation of this statement is the presence at the talks of Viktor Khristenko, whom the Russian prime minister asked to monitor the company's valuation process.

At the same time, Qimonda itself does not confirm this information, but does not refute it, noting that official requests from Russian companies have not yet been received, however, there are Russian companies on the list of potential buyers that the company’s management is going to contact.

Observers point out that Putin, during his time at the KGB, has spent many years in Dresden, and informal contacts with the government of Saxony may be useful for carrying out a possible deal.
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Based on EETimes

From myself, I note that Qimonda has (possessed, rather,) fairly advanced technology (50-60 nm), as well as innovative buried wordline technology (by explaining the video link), which allows you to improve chip parameters without reducing the size of an individual transistor. The technology is very interesting and Asian manufacturers have not had time to copy it to develop its counterpart. Unfortunately, the company managed to introduce technology into production too late, and this did not help it to avoid bankruptcy. Thus, in terms of technology acquisition, the purchase of Qimonda is the right step at the right moment.

However, if we consider a possible purchase as an investment, everything does not look bright.
The DRAM market (and memory in general) has been in deep depression for 2 years already. The main reason is too high competition and hard dumping of market leaders (Samsung in the first place). Given the low cost (and relative quality, if we are talking about Korea or Taiwan), the labor force will not be able to compete in the production of Europeans with Asians. In Russia, among other things, there are simply no necessary specialists, they will either have to be taught for a long time or expensive to hire.
Therefore, sadly, if you do not bear in mind the reorientation of production, Russia's investment in Qimonda can only be used to drink budget money ...