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Memory manufacturers Micron and Nanya have announced that they signed an agreement to form a new DRAM joint venture, called MeiYa Technology Corp. This will combine the two companies' experience on the DRAM market and is expected to open new opportunities in DRAM chips manufacturing.The two companies will join b... |
22 April 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Japan's largest chip manufacturer Elpida has inked a silicon foundry business partnership with United Microelectronics Corp. The two memory manufacturers are looking for new business opportunities on the market in order to diminish their losses on the memory market. According to the business agreement, the two c... |
17 March 2008
13:00 GMT |
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The DRAM industry has always been sitting on quicksands and it has been sinking at a higher rate than it has recovered, but it seems like January was a good time for memory chip business, as chip sales have just beat the industry's expectations. The three-month period of global chip sales ended with revenue of $... |
3 March 2008
11:51 GMT |
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Micron Technology has just announced that it has joined Nanya for a DRAM joint-venture and a partnership in research and development on the 50-nanometer production node. The announcement puts an end to the rumors that have circulated since last month.The two companies jointly stated that they are expecting to sign an... |
3 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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California-based Nanochip company has announced that it is on track with the development of a new breed of memory chips with amazing capacities of 1 Terabyte. These chips are alleged to combine phase-change media to cantilever read/write heads under the coordination of a microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS).The new ... |
26 January 2008
04:02 GMT |
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OCZ has announced and demonstrated their first SSD drives to feature 32 GB and 64 GB storage capacities. The demonstration took place within the Consumer Electronics Show, and the company claimed that these two models are the beginning of a new line of solid-state products OCZ will develop soon.Although some solid-st... |
9 January 2008
04:23 GMT |
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The flash storage has been one of the technologies that have undoubtedly changed the face of consumer electronics appliances. It can store a large amount of data on a tiny surface, at the cost of only a few milliwatts. DRAM memory needs permanent refreshing to preserve its contents, but Flash storage can do without p... |
27 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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Micron Technologies has reported a quarterly loss after a full year of profit. The largest manufacturer of memory chips in the United States has been terribly affected by the free-falling prices that could not even cover the manufacturing costs.Previously, Micron reported first fiscal quarter net loss of $262 millio... |
21 December 2007
10:47 GMT |
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Samsung have been reported to sell their 256 Mbit (16 Mb x 16) DDR2 graphics memory chip stock at a dangerously low price of $0.50 per unit. This situation occurs as the company is willing to unload its graphics memory stock, but it has set a price that is lower even than the competitors' manufacturing costs. Ac... |
18 December 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Japanese chip maker Elpida Memory is ready to sustain some financial loss in the operation process in order to snatch a bigger piece of market share from the bigger DRAM producing competition. Elpida spokeswoman Kumiko Higuchi stated that the company is ready to enter the operating loss game if the DRAM prices freeze... |
5 December 2007
11:10 GMT |
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Micron Technology is somewhat misleading, at least in terms of name; their technology may be "micro", but the company is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Among the four largest memory chip makers in the industry, the company provides customers with all the memory and storage areas, such as im... |
30 November 2007
03:10 GMT |
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Contrary to expert opinions about the DRAM markets being oversaturated, Formosa Advanced Technologies executives announced their decision of opening a third DRAM plant. The action comes as a response to the demands of the company's partners Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories.The memory industry environment ha... |
23 November 2007
05:58 GMT |
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South Korean newspaper Korea Times reported that Samsung South Korea division has cut more than 1,600 jobs since March this year, shortly after Samsung announced a series of restructuring measures aimed at keeping low costs in the manufacturing process.South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service data shows that ... |
20 November 2007
10:26 GMT |
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This summer was a very bad time for the manufacturing companies that are active in the production of both computer memory chips and NAND flash based non-volatile memory solutions, as price tags fluctuated widely, with a general tendency of pointing downward. One of the most important computer and NAND memory chip mak... |
3 October 2007
09:38 GMT |
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As developing a whole new computer hardware technology can be very expensive and even producing large quantities of hardware parts screams for big funding, more and more companies are forming joint ventures in order to split costs, risks and profits. A brand new partnership is now in the making as Sony announced that... |
2 October 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Random access memory manufacturing industry is going through another crisis as the market is simply overflowing with DRAM memory modules and suppliers and retail channel dealers are forced to severely cut all price tags in order to attract more customers. But problems do not stop here as several market analysts predi... |
20 September 2007
09:20 GMT |
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After big names on the computer industry market encountered problems with the antitrust regulations and the state bodies that were designed to enforce them, it is the turn of another company to face a looming probe. While Intel and Microsoft are the traditional accused parties in just about every antitrust case in th... |
15 September 2007
07:21 GMT |
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It is widely believed, thank you rumor spreaders, that Sun Microsystems is looking to expand its business reach into the field of random access memory by bidding for the Rambus company which is specialized in the development of memory technologies, even if it does not directly produce memory modules. While the acquis... |
13 September 2007
05:42 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it successfully completed the development of the first 2Gb DDR2 random access memory chips that will be built using the more advanced 60 nanometer fabrication process and that the mass production is scheduled to start at the end of the year. The random access memory manufactur... |
12 September 2007
04:16 GMT |
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After some months of price, demand and supply stabilization that made computer memory manufacturers and vendors happy, it looks as if the entire market is heading towards Chaos Central again as the marketing research firm iSuppli predicts. September will mark the month when the DRAM market conditions will start turni... |
29 August 2007
04:30 GMT |
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After months and months of oscillating up and down, computer memory markets are finally getting more stable. Currently, DRAM memory transactions are rising in very small increments in China where computer system manufacturers and vendors are trying to capitalize of the soon to come Olympic Games.After a period of pri... |
24 August 2007
06:12 GMT |
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The computer memory market goes like all other markets through periods of expansion and contraction and while this fluctuation in small increments is normal, the situation during the last few months was far from normality. First of all the year started with some pretty high DRAM price tags all around the memory lines... |
17 August 2007
10:16 GMT |
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Innovative Silicon (ISi for short) announced that it licensed its Z-RAM computer memory technology to the hardware manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor, entering a partnership that could lead to a new RAM standard. While this new memory technology is not expected to make it to users' machine before 2010, it could be... |
13 August 2007
06:57 GMT |
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The computer memory manufacturer and vendor company ProMOS Technologies is not discouraged by the losses suffered during the second quarter of the year as the company prepares its production lines to switch to the 70nm fabrication process. By the end of 2008, ProMOS is expecting to reach a monthly 125.000 12 inch waf... |
13 August 2007
05:54 GMT |
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For a while now computer memory prices are going up, one little step at a time, after a long period of free falling that created numerous financial problems among most manufacturers. Now, DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise through the rest of August, even more so after the power outage that hit the Korean prod... |
9 August 2007
08:14 GMT |
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Flash based memory chips are becoming more and more popular as their price drops and their storage capacity and relative performance climbs. Nowadays, flash memories can be found in many computer hardware parts (flash memory sticks, solid state drives - SSDs) and in cell phones and just any kind of mobile gadget that... |
31 July 2007
03:16 GMT |
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For some time now, the entire DRAM market is in shambles with producers and retail channel vendors trying to come to an equilibrium and stabilize it while saving their own revenues from going too low. The worst of it seems to have passed together with the second quarter of the year 2007 when global DRAM generated rev... |
30 July 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Qimonda is a new company, intended to be the world's fourth largest manufacturer, created by the German semiconductor maker Infineon to spin-off its memory chip business. In its fiscal third quarter, the Munich manufacturer had to suffer from Qimonda's poor performance. In this quarter, the net loss grew to... |
28 July 2007
08:14 GMT |
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Powertech Technology Inc is a company that focused mostly on integrated circuits for memory packaging and while its business shows signs of steady growth, the company announced that it will start investments in order to expand to logic IC packaging. Mass production is expected to start the following year, according t... |
27 July 2007
09:04 GMT |
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After a long descent that left most memory manufacturers wondering if they should adopt a new line of work, the price for both DRAM computer memory and NAND flash chips rises slowly but steady. According to figures posted by DRAMeXchange and cited by the Web based news site Digitimes, after seeing the price of a 512M... |
26 July 2007
11:56 GMT |
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There are still many discrete graphics cards that use the older GDDR2 standard, even if high-end cards use GDDR3 or are in the process of adapting to the newer and faster GDDR4. This is the climate where Samsung decided to throw a new graphical memory standard in the mix: GDDR5. Because the widespread use of video ca... |
18 July 2007
06:08 GMT |
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After several months of steady decline, computer memory prices (DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 memories) are now somewhat more stable and a slight increase is expected to occur over the following month. Researcher iSuppli, cited by the news site InformationWeek, just raised its rating for the whole computer memory market, saying... |
18 July 2007
02:45 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation and Qimonda have agreed to collaborate on providing a new mobile storage solution. The Multi-Chip Package (MCP) provided will use SanDisk's NAND flash and controllers, whereas Qimonda will provide low power mobile DRAM. Kin Wah Loh, Chief Executive Officer at Qimonda, declared that "Offering ... |
26 April 2007
05:51 GMT |
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On the "merry-go-round" of the computer industry, there are a lot of ideas being swung back and forth between manufacturers; sometimes, there are people that get upset about somebody else using their ideas, so they put up a copyright on them. Others, on the other hand, are more than thankful that somebody is using th... |
23 April 2007
03:57 GMT |
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For a couple of decades, the memory modules have kept the same basic concept, with improvements being done to the mechanical part, how electrons circulate and so on. But, basically, the principle remained the same, and people were pretty happy with how things were going. Of course, when I say "people", I'm not r... |
16 April 2007
10:47 GMT |
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One of the well-known semiconductor chips manufacturers in Taiwan, ProMOS Technologies has had a long experience with memory modules and has sold memory chips to more than a dozen manufacturers. Now it has gone through a rough spot in the second quarter of 2007, but still has announced that it will continue its five ... |
29 March 2007
10:43 GMT |
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