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Monday 2 March 2020
Kioxia strives to return to profitability
Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is reportedly looking to go public by October 2020, and therefore is striving to swing back to profit, according to industry sources.
Thursday 13 February 2020
Top-5 semiconductor firms hold 53% of global wafer capacity
The world's top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month, with their combined capacity representing 53% of the world's total wafer...
Thursday 16 January 2020
Worldwide semiconductor revenue drops 11.9% in 2019, says Gartner
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...
Tuesday 17 September 2019
HDD demand from datacenter players to rise in 4Q19 and 1Q20
China- and US-based datacenter players are expected to replenish their HDD inventory beginning from fourth-quarter 2019 to first-quarter 2020, as demand for datacenter establishments...
Monday 24 June 2019
Quanta mulls setting up production base in Southeast Asia
Taiwan-based Quanta Computer is assessing the feasibility of setting up new production lines in Southeast Asia, which are most likely to be located in Thailand, where the firm's affiliates...
Tuesday 18 June 2019
HDD makers to scale up production in Thailand
Taiwan-based HDD manufacturers Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications and Quanta Storage have both moved to scale up their output in Thailand at the request of their major clients...
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Toshiba Memory, Western Digital to jointly invest in new 3D flash memory fab
Toshiba Memory and Western Digital have finalized a formal agreement to jointly invest in the "K1" manufacturing facility that Toshiba Memory is currently constructing in Kitakami...
Monday 21 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: Toshiba Memory revving up to boost competitiveness
Japan-based Toshiba Memory Corp (TMC), now the world's No. 2 supplier of NAND flash memory chips with nearly 20% market share, is striving at full throttles to rival top supplier...
Monday 1 October 2018
HDD demand for enterprise data centers remains robust, says WD executive
HDD demand for enterprise data centers continues to be strong, according to Christopher Bergey, executive VP at Western Digital (WD).
Friday 21 September 2018
Toshiba Memory, Western Digital open new 3D NAND flash fab
Toshiba Memory and Western Digital have announced jointly the opening of Fab 6 and a new R&D center at Toshiba's Yokkaichi operations in Mie, Japan.
Thursday 13 September 2018
Falling SSD prices to drive greater adoption in notebooks, others
NAND flash chip prices have fallen to the levels of two years ago, while SSD prices have hit their sweet spot, according to industry sources. Falling SSD prices are set to drive the...
Thursday 23 August 2018
Superior Plating to swing to profit in 2018
Superior Plating Technology, dedicated to metal surface treatment and electroplating processing, is expected to return to profitability in 2018 thanks to new orders placed by Western...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Global 1Q18 NAND flash market posts 3% decrease, says DRAMeXchange
Revenues of the global NAND flash industry dropped 3% sequentially to US$15.74 billion in the first quarter of 2018, when a seasonal slowdown in demand dragged down the memory prices,...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Toshiba Memory to build new fab to expand 3D flash production capacity
Toshiba Memory (TMC) announced recently it had decided to start constructing a new fab for BiCS FLASH, the company's proprietary 3D flash memory, in Kitakami (Iwate prefecture, Japan)...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Tsinghua Unigroup reportedly to source 3D NAND chips from Intel
Tsinghua Unigroup has struck deals with Intel to source 3D NAND flash chips from the US firm in 2018 and 2019, while having subsidiary Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) continue...