A dramatic oversupply and freefalling prices are in store during the third quarter for the DRAM space, resulting in a turbulent second half for besieged DRAM suppliers, according...
In another sign of the growing prominence of mobile platforms like smartphones, handheld gaming devices and tablets, revenues in the first quarter for mobile DRAM exceeded the US$2...
Global supply of DRAM is forecast to reach 2.9 billion 1Gb-equivalent chips in 2011, up 51% from 1.92 billion units in 2010, according to Digitimes Research. The anticipated higher...
The worldwide NAND flash memory market posted revenues of US$4.88 billion in the second quarter of 2011, down about 9% sequentially, according to DRAMeXchange. Samsung Electronics...
Hynix Semiconductor and Toshiba have agreed to jointly develop spin-transfer torque Magnetoresistance RAM (MRAM). Once technology development is successfully completed, the two parties...
The global DDR4 market will not come into shape until 2013 or 2014, one to two years after industry leaders kick off commercial production based on 30nm process technology, according...
Global DRAM revenues during the first three months of 2011 amounted to US$8.3 billion, lower than the US$9 billion anticipated, according to IHS iSuppli. The first-quarter total represented...
Mosaid Technologies has concluded a patent portfolio license agreement with Hynix Semiconductor of Korea, according to the Canada-based patent licensing and IP development company.
While major NAND chip producers are moving forward to transition their manufacturing processes to below 30nm, the advance makes sense only if volume production is feasible, industry...
Hynix Semiconductor has announced that net profits for the first quarter of 2011 slid 66% from a year earlier to KRW274 billion (US$255 million), citing falling chip prices.
Korea- and Taiwan-based foundry houses and memory-IC manufacturers have obtained support from their local producers of blank silicon wafers as failure of supplies from Japan still...
Many DRAM chip suppliers reportedly have stopped quoting their chip prices for the spot market segment following the earthquake which hit Japan on March 11. Meanwhile, downstream...
Anobit has announced that its new MSP2020 NAND flash memory controller is shipping in multi-million quantities for use within today's most advanced smartphones and tablet computing...
Global DRAM revenues declined to US$8.64 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, down 20% from US$10.78 billion in the third quarter, according to DRAMeXchange. Chip contract prices...
