Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, according to Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the...
Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) expects its revenues to be higher than year-ago levels in the first quarter of 2020, and is positive about its performance in all of the ye...
NAND flash demand for new-generation gaming consoles featuring 1TB and higher-density SSDs is set to grow robustly in the second half of 2020, according to industry sources.
At the ongoing CES, SK Hynix has unveiled its PCIe NVMe consumer SSD series. The drives are built with SK Hynix' 128-layer 4D NAND flash, just six months after the company announced...
Memory module firm Adata Technology has reported consolidated revenues surged about 19% from a year earlier to NT$2.48 billion (US$82.5 million) in December 2019. During the month,...
Despite AMD and SSD players' aggressive promotions of PCIe 4.0, the standard may not become popular until Intel releases CPUs that supports the technology, according to sources from...
NAND flash contract market prices are expected to rise 10-15% in the first quarter of 2020, thanks to suppliers' output controls and a pick-up in demand for datacenter applications,...
Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation game console, the Xbox Series X, featuring an industrial design enables the company to deliver four times the processing power of Xbox One...
Intel's CPU shortages are expected to continue haunting the PC industry in the first quarter of 2020, and may even last into the second quarter, undermining demand for SSDs from the...
Taiwan-based memory module manufacturers have expressed optimism about their performances in 2020, when chip prices and demand are set to recover at a modest pace.
To further nurture its own memory industry, China's second national IC industry investment fund, also known as Big Fund Phase II, has recently invested in Longsys Electronics, becoming...
Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) has announced that its lineup of PCIe 4.0 NVMe enterprise solid state drives (SSD) has achieved PCI-SIG compliance for PCIe 4.0 and University of...
NAND flash controller supplier Silicon Motion Technology expects its share of the global SSD controller segment to reach 40% over the next three years, up from the current 30%, according...
Taiwan-based PCB maker Dynamic Electronics returned to profitability in the third quarter of 2019, with its net earnings skyrocketing 48.37 folds on year to NT$121 million (US$3.97...
Silicon Motion Technology saw its SSD controller sales increase about 15% sequentially to hit a record high in the third quarter, when the company's consolidated revenues climbed...
