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You'd think a company that filed for bankruptcy and is about to be bought by another wouldn't have much to show in terms of product sales, but surprises never cease.In a paradoxical turn of events, Elpida managed to get the third spot in terms of DRAM market share during the first quarter of 2012.The compan... |
26 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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It was only a few days ago that we reported on who was left to bid for Elpida and, now, we finally have confirmation: Micron will acquire the company entirely.
From being one of the prime suppliers of semiconductors, Elpida has somehow fallen to the level of bankruptcy very quickly over the past year and a half.
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11 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Elpida has been in treacherous waters for some time now, having filed for bankruptcy and putting itself up for auction, but those willing to buy it get fewer and fewer each month.
Elpida used to be quite an important name among the makers of semiconductors, especially NAND and DRAM chips.
Unfortunately, the memor... |
4 May 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Elpida's situation continues to be worrisome, so now we get to see something similar to what happened late last month.
For those who forgot, DRAM prices went up a little bit in late March because of Elpida's bankruptcy.
Now, it looks like contract prices for DRAM chips and modules have risen again.
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24 April 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Marking one of the rare cases when an antitrust lawsuit actually ends instead of being started, Micron and Oracle have reached a settlement in their antitrust battle. With all the legal fights going on, there are few occasions where we can actually sit back and say that progress is being made. As such, Micron and... |
30 March 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Elpida's fall seems to have hit the DRAM industry particularly hard, even though everyone involved is trying to downplay it.
When Elpida filed for bankruptcy, it was a clear sign that the DRAM market had gone downhill a lot in the past years.
Now, it appears that the state of what was once a major name in th... |
28 March 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Elpida may have gone into bankruptcy, but its subsidiary maker of DRAM needn't fall with it, especially since it gets funds from other companies too, like Powertech Technology.
Speaking of Powertech, the company has decided that it is no longer in its best interest to hold onto its stake in the manufacturer.
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27 March 2012
07:26 GMT |
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After how closely we monitored the dramatic decline in the DRAM market, and all the problems it caused, you'd think all companies involved would have had a rough time, but that doesn't appear to be true for Kingston.
According to a recent report from Digitimes, Kingston actually did well for itself on the... |
16 March 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Hynix may be a memory maker based in Korea, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have plants anywhere else in the world.In fact, like so many other product manufacturers, it has facilities in China.It so happens that the factory located in Wuxi, China, is going to start pulling its weight on the NAND Flash mark... |
15 March 2012
11:40 GMT |
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Elpida tried to negotiate with the Japanese government, hoping to be granted protection to repay the $5.6 billion debt, but it had to file for bankruptcy instead.
Elpida is Japan's only maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and used to be one of the most powerful memory players in the world.
Now, thou... |
28 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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After many months of decline, memory makers and vendors can finally start to increase their chip and module prices, even though consumer demand continues to be rather weak.
It wasn't so long ago that the memory market reached such a low level in terms of demand that it was believed prices couldn't go much... |
16 February 2012
05:28 GMT |
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We wrote that memory prices had finally stabilized, more or less, but the price point is quite low compared to what companies see as ideal.
Sure enough, reports are coming in about how makers of DRAM and NAND products have definitely seen better days.
During the month of January 2012, they saw their sales droppin... |
7 February 2012
04:17 GMT |
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It appears that the memory industry may have finally gone past that stage where demand was so severely overshadowed by supply.
According to the most recent findings of DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, the prices of memory modules and kits are stabilizing.
That is to say, the supply of chips and mo... |
1 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Crucial has already said its piece on the solid-state drive market so it was only a matter of time until it made a move on the RAM segment.
With the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) less than a day away, Crucial formally released its latest batch of memory products.
They aren't just a... |
9 January 2012
17:01 GMT |
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After over a year of troubling price decline, random access memory chips and, by extension, modules, may finally experience a respite.
That is to say, the companies that produce RAM won't have any more reason to bemoan their ailing finances.
Though low prices are only a motive for happiness as far as customer... |
3 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Elpida has begun to promote 4 Gb Wide IO Mobile RAM and 4 Gb DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3) memory chips.The memory manufacturer believes that these latest products can simultaneously satisfy both of the two, great needs of customers.Those needs, for performance and energy efficiency, are rather hard to fulfill at once.Fo... |
29 December 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Micron has been working with both Intel and IBM on 3D memory chips and, now, the company has begun a close collaboration with JEDEC for the standardization of the 3DS DRAM interface and die-stacking technology.
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, formerly known as the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Coun... |
17 December 2011
10:41 GMT |
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One might not think that the floods in Thailand would affect memory sales, of all things, but they just might, albeit indirectly.
The floods that shut down factories in Thailand crippled the worldwide supply chain of hard disk drive units.
Thus, with fewer storage devices to go around, fewer PCs will sell during ... |
14 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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We heard this before but we're hearing it again: memory chip and, by extension, memory module and kit prices can't go much lower than they are now.
Perhaps it's because of the minor rebound of some weeks back, or perhaps it is because consumers are just that unmotivated to buy a new memory product.
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13 December 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Since high-end motherboards and the Intel Sandy Bridge-E line of chips support super high-end, quad-channel memory, Team group decided to release two such kits, as well as a pair of dual-channel kits for good measure.
The quad-channel kits are Xtreem LV DDR3 2400 CL9 and DDR3 2400 CL11.
Their names are quite self-e... |
2 December 2011
08:47 GMT |
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There are highs and lows as time passes for the IT industry, and Toshiba is definitely at one of the lows, perhaps not even at the bottom yet, having been constrained to close off three of its factories. Toshiba is reorganizing itself in the wake of troubled marketing performance brought about by what are, for the ... |
1 December 2011
09:37 GMT |
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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 itse... |
28 November 2011
08:35 GMT |
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If you were going to buy a memory product for Christmas, you might just want to do it now instead of waiting any longer, because their prices started to go back up. Hopefully it won't be a lightning fast process, not like what happened to HDDs when they doubled or tripled in price, but factories seem to be hav... |
25 November 2011
11:12 GMT |
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People may not have caught on to just how far the situation on the DRAM market had gotten, but they might get an idea when they learn that some companies that make random access memory chips want to get rid of some of their factories. Manufacturers of dynamic random access memory chips are in something of a bind ri... |
24 November 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Looks like RAM has finally stopped dropping in price, much to the ease of mind of semiconductor makers.
After over a year of nearly constant price decline, chip prices are finally stabilizing.
Elpida, one of the major suppliers of such chips, decided to lower its output, to alleviate the oversupply problem.
Thi... |
18 November 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Consumers that still have the willingness to buy some new RAM can keep rejoicing over the fact that RAM is still very cheap, even though this only means that demand continues to disappoint.There were a few instances, in the recent past, when DRAM prices almost looked ready to start recovering, but this, alas, has no... |
26 October 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Consumers don't have any reason to feel bad about low memory prices, but the makers of DRAM do, though they might finally be able to risk a hope, albeit a small one.
The past year saw DRAM prices fall almost constantly, with the few episodes of rebound far between and just enough to torment memory makers wit... |
13 October 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Had Transcend not spent the past few years diversifying its business, it might have seriously suffered because of the DRAM demand problem but, as it is, September turned out to be quite the favorable period. Many users are probably tired of hearing about all the problems plaguing the DRAM market segment, even if th... |
8 October 2011
08:49 GMT |
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It isn't hard to guess that the chip market isn't doing so hot lately, but analysts have uncovered that things are somewhat worse than most would tend to believe.
One way of knowing whether or not demand for a specific IT segment is healthy is to look at the product stockpiles.
In other words, the Da... |
8 October 2011
06:22 GMT |
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The NAND Flash storage market may not exactly be as bad off as that of DRAM, but it doesn't seem to be doing too great either, as evident from how Micron, a big supplier of such chips, incurred a loss during the latest fiscal quarter.
Micron Technology has just completed the fourth quarter of its fiscal year... |
4 October 2011
05:43 GMT |
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We may have reported that DRAM chips momentarily gained in price a short time ago, but that was a shirt-lived reason to rejoice for makers of such things, as the situation isn't really improved overall. It was only a few days ago that we learned of how DRAM pricing increased a bit after months and months of al... |
30 September 2011
03:13 GMT |
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After many months of almost constant downward price slide, the DRAM market has seen one of the very few recoveries, even if it is unclear if the trend will last for any significant period of time.The semiconductor industry is a part of the IT industry that was hit fairly hard by the recession, though other factors w... |
26 September 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Samsung may have started work on 20nm chips, but it is Elpida that claims to have created the world's smallest 4 Gb DDR3 chip, based on the 25nm technology.
There is one main reason for how semiconductors get more and more energy-efficient over time, not to mention fast and, in the case of DRAM and NAND, cap... |
23 September 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Chinese tech industry sources are saying that Apple is slowly reducing its dependency on Samsung for key hardware parts, as tension between the two keeps building up, amid their ongoing patent lawsuits.The sources in question reportedly learned that Apple has recently increased its DRAM and NAND Flash orders beyond S... |
22 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Whenever a semiconductor company passes to a new manufacturing process, it makes sure to come out and loudly declare it, as happened now with Samsung, whose newest factory went into business.
Crossing to a new chip-making process technology always brings benefits in terms of potential memory density, performance,... |
22 September 2011
02:59 GMT |
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With DRAM doing as badly as it is, Ultrabooks are seen as a sort of godsend in companies' aims to digest inventories, but it so happens that things aren't all going to change for the better.
By now, it has been about a year or more since the DRAM industry has been going from bad to worse.
Even just la... |
20 September 2011
08:28 GMT |
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It seems that the semiconductor industry as a whole, not just the DRAM sector, has gone through a hard year, as analysts found themselves forced to downward adjust their market forecasts.
Some time ago, Gartner said that the overall chip market, for the year 2011, would show an increase of 5.1 percent compared t... |
16 September 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Intel has been busy at this year's IDF event, speaking of many things, even a certain memory solution that is supposedly vastly superior to existing DRAM chips.
People probably know that the DRAM segment hasn't been doing too well over the past year, since demand remained weak, causing repeated price dr... |
16 September 2011
02:57 GMT |
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The saga of DRAM hardships continues yet again, with just one type of memory module succeeding in avoiding a further decline in average selling price, according to most recent reports.
The IT segment may be eager and excited about upcoming CPUs, GPUs and mobile platforms, as well as new software, but not all thin... |
15 September 2011
09:42 GMT |
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The DRAM market may not be doing so well as far as consumer demand goes, but this hasn't stopped Invensas from coming up with a new memory device packaging technology.
Memory modules are all composed of multiple chips, strapped onto a PCB (printed circuit board) meant mainly to act as a mediator between them... |
6 September 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Soon, it will be a full year since the DRAM industry really started to go downhill, and analysts are, sure enough, seeing only trouble ahead for makers of memory, what with demand not getting any better.Those in the DIY PC market no doubt feel giddy over just how incredibly cheap DRAM memory is nowadays.Unfortunatel... |
30 August 2011
07:43 GMT |
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One would think that price cuts would qualify as a news in any market, and most often they do, but the DRAM segment, unfortunately, can be said to have reached a point where price declines are to be expected.Normally, every segment of the industry goes through phases of rising and falling prices, depending on how de... |
12 August 2011
08:22 GMT |
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When Advanced Micro Devices was found to have developed branded random access memory, questions immediately arose on whether it had serious intentions, and the answer might have come at last.Advanced Micro Devices used to be known for its x86 central processing units, until it bought ATI and also became a power on t... |
11 August 2011
02:51 GMT |
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The incredibly low prices that DRAM memory has reached over the past couple of quarters may have prompted standard memory capacities in PCs to go from 2 GB to 4 GB, but this situation will change in 2012, according to iSuppli.Those keeping track of things on the memory market may be aware of the fact that DRAM chips... |
3 August 2011
10:21 GMT |
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It has been known for months that Elpida was going to soon begin the manufacture of its, and supposedly the world's, smallest DDR3 chip yet, and it appears that production has finally started.Semiconductor manufacturing processes have a habit of moving on to more advanced nodes each year, enabling higher perfor... |
2 August 2011
03:06 GMT |
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The past few quarters have seen much talk about how things have being going from bad to worse on the DRAM industry, and it looks like they might have gotten serious enough that ChipMOS decided to phase out its packaging and testing business altogether.
The semiconductor industry may not be doing too badly overall... |
16 July 2011
06:55 GMT |
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The fact that the DRAM industry has had better years is already beyond doubt, especially now that companies that deal in such things are considering somewhat drastic measures in hopes of getting prices to recover at least a little.Progress is usually a great thing, but it might just be that the DRAM industry has bee... |
15 July 2011
10:29 GMT |
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DRAM makers may have, at one point, said that they weren't going to let chip prices fall any lower than they already are, but it looks like contract prices went down anyway.The evolution of things on the semiconductor market, and its individual segments, is one that seems to be showing mixed results lately.Whil... |
14 July 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Though NAND Flash memory has made a name for itself as the fastest storage solution currently in use, it might just be that Samsung has developed a technology that could make it look slow and weak.Solid state drives are getting cheap enough to challenge the significantly more capacious hard disk drives, while flash ... |
13 July 2011
08:28 GMT |
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In a not so shocking turn of events, Toshiba and Hynix have announced that they are pooling their resources in order to create Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistance Random Access Memory (MRAM).The IT market is in no way a stranger to partnerships, since joining forces often yields new and improved products and tech... |
13 July 2011
05:26 GMT |
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