DRAM revenues grew 27.1% sequentially to US$4.04 billion in the second quarter of 2009, when the average price at the contract market went up by 23%, according to DRAMeXchange, which...
Winbond Electronics plans to lower its sales proportion from standard DRAM to 10% in 2010, and gradually phase out the business, according to company president Tung-Yi Chan. The Taiwan-based...
Japan's Elpida Memory has announced a net loss of 44.4 billion yen (US$470 million) for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, compared to a loss of 60.9 billion yen in the prior quarter...
Memory packaging and testing houses Powertech Technology (PTI) and Formosa Advanced Technologies Company (FATC) are expected to see growing sales contributions from the DDR3 segment...
IC packaging and testing house Advanced Engineering Semiconductor (ASE) has announced that its board of directors has approved a NT$450 million (US$13.7 million) loan to DRAM maker...
ProMOS Technologies issued a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on July 23 stating that its agreement with Hynix Semiconductor on 54nm DRAM manufacturing has been terminated...
Officials from the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under Taiwan's economics ministry on July 21 met with local DRAM makers to spell out requirements to access state funds. The...
Taiwan DRAM makers are expected to keep their capex budgets low for 2009, even as the industry recovers from a prolonged slump, according to market watchers. Nanya Technology and...
Elpida Memory has been quietly developing a technology based on its existing 65nm equipment for DRAM production, to enable a die shrink to 50nm, industry sources have claimed. The...
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has softened its attitude towards the government-led Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) project, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN)...
The goal of establishing Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) should not be seen as an opportunity for local Taiwan DRAM chipmakers to apply for government funding, according to Taiwan's Economic...
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), which has just received the nod from bondholders for resetting the conversion price for its ECBs due June 17, 2009, still has debts worth...
Memory packaging and testing specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) has posted a sequential revenue growth of 4.4% in June with a narrower on-year drop. Sales for the second quarter...
Elpida Memory has stated that its current relationship with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) remains the same, despite its exit from PSC's board of directors.
