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November 28th, 2011, 13:35 GMT · By

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Samsung and Micron Somewhat Thrive on Ailing DRAM Market

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The DRAM market may have done poorly over the past year, and the past two quarters in particular, but that doesn't mean that all companies were in as much of a difficulty as the others.

In fact, Samsung and Micron actually thrived, even unlike Toshiba and Elpida, which are so overstocked that Kingston felt itself compelled to lend a hand.

Granted, Elpida still made third place, but it suffered a loss of market share and was almost ousted from that position by Micron itself.

At the end of the third quarter, it was Samsung that continued to lead the memory segment, with a 45% share, followed by Hynix (21.5%), Elpida (12.1%) and Micron (12.1%, again).

Samsung's shipments even went up by 9 percent and its ASPs (average selling prices) fell by 17%, not the 26% of the whole market.

As such, it will likely keep growing more and more successful over the next year as well, even if not very quickly.
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