The DRAM industry accounts for about 10% of global semiconductor revenues, and chronic oversupply and diminished demand has led to a near collapse in the industry, with related shock waves affecting growth in the semiconductor and related equipment markets.
In Taiwan, the government has been eyeing a rescue package for struggling DRAM players, but consolidation in the industry is expected to continue.
The Taiwan government should quickly hammer out a rescue plan for the local DRAM industry, which plays a crucial strategic role in Taiwan's overall industrial development, DRAM makers...
DRAM chips, which are as cheap as tap water currently, will become as expensive as oil if South Korean makers are allowed to monopolize the global DRAM market, Frank Huang, chairman...
Taiwan-based DRAM maker ProMOS Technologies has denied a media report stating that the company's 8- and 12-inch fabs in the Hsinchu SciencePark (HSP) have been forced to suspend operations...
Instead of pouring funds directly to rescue financially-troubled Taiwan DRAM makers, Taiwan's lawmakers have asked the state planners office under the Council of Economic Planning...
Major DRAM makers Nanya Technology, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) and ProMOS Technologies are estimated to post revenue drops of 40-50% sequentially in November, with...
Over the past few years, DRAM makers had been expanding capacity aggressively on industries' positive estimates of how the Windows Vista operating system would stimulate market demand...
Peter Su, chairman of memory module maker Transcend Information, has urged Taiwan's DRAM makers to reach a truce. Not only should the goverment take measures to bail out the local...
Speculation has emerged concerning enhanced relationship between DRAM makers in Taiwan and Japan since Elpida Memory expressed its interest in the company's closer tie with its Taiwan...
ProMOS Technology chairman ML Chen has urged the Taiwan government to throw a lifeline to the DRAM industry to helping it undergo fundamental changes during the current difficultie...
Taiwan's major DRAM makers may see their overall net profit margin fall to -72% in 2008, with combined losses of NT$112.5 billion (US$3.42 billion), according to the Industrial Economics...
Taiwan's lawmakers, economic officials and state planners held a meeting on November 10 with the purpose of developing a strategy to save the island's loss-making DRAM industry. However,...
DRAM maker Qimonda has announced that on November 7, 2008 it was notified by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that it is not in compliance with one of the NYSE's continued listing...
Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics has recently landed niche memory module orders from Qimonda, which were originally manufactured at Qimonda's soon to be closed 8-inch fab in Richmond,...
The latest speculation about Taiwan's DRAM industry is that the Taiwan government may step into the dismal memory industry with an aim to push for a consolidation among the makers...
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