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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 put itself up for auction a while ago, but bidders have been backing out of the deal one after another, the latest to do so being SK Hynix.
Now, according to DRAMeXchange, Micron is the company most likely to win out of the remaining interested parties.
Getting Elpida's assets would allow it to truly ... |
8 May 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Hony is reportedly planning outsourcing to the Hiroshima Elpida DRAM plant. They even have a potential client for their DRAM if they win the bid. The company in question is none other than China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. SMIC is a semiconductor foundry in mainland China, providin... |
6 May 2012
07:26 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.
Hy... |
24 April 2012
09:59 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 was, and arguably still is, a key part of the DRAM market, despite its serious struggles. One would think that a bankrupt company wouldn't really have much influence on the market segment it inhabits, but that does not apply in this case. In fact, there are concerns that if the restructuring efforts g... |
14 March 2012
10:16 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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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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In a move that might further cause memory products to get expensive again, Kingston is supposedly leaning towards buying large chip quantities from Elpida and Toshiba.
More precisely, Kingston could end up ordering memory chips, on a large scale, from those companies, so as to enable them to actually get their stoc... |
28 November 2011
15:41 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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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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It appears that Elpida Memory is ready to see what OEMs think of its latest DDR3 SDRAM designed with the TSV stacking technology, one that supposedly has visible energy efficiency benefits, among other things.Being the developer of memory products that it is, Elpida is always working on some new technology to enhanc... |
27 June 2011
04:23 GMT |
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Amidst all announcements and rumors surrounding mobile devices, Elpida came forth to announce its newest mobile memory, one that it proudly says is the slimmest to ever be made.The market for mobile devices is one that pretty much every analyst believes will grow at a brisk pace over the next years. Of co... |
22 June 2011
09:35 GMT |
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Micron and Elpida are usually known as rivals on the market for semiconductor products, but if certain reports are true the two might end up joining forces in order to compete with a certain other strong presence in the field.Partnerships on the IT market can be seen as more or less just as common as lawsuits are fo... |
21 June 2011
06:03 GMT |
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It is no secret that the semiconductor market has been quite quickly moving on to better manufacturing processes, and Elpida again confirms this by announcing its most advanced DRAM chips yet.The past months have been literally packed full of news regarding solid state drives built out of 25nm NAND Flash chips. ... |
2 May 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Elpida released a variety of memory products over the years and, naturally, is not about to stop any time soon, having now stepped forth to announce its newest mobile RAM chip.Whenever a chip maker manages to advance to a better manufacturing process, it will inevitably unveil new products. This goes for both DRAM a... |
7 April 2011
06:07 GMT |
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Things are definitely not going well in Japan, as the natural disaster that struck last week has left much of the infrastructure severely impaired, and this extends to Elpida, essentially the only DRAM maker that the country has.For those that need an update, the strong, 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan la... |
14 March 2011
05:21 GMT |
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It appears that not all plans of acquisition these days are getting carried all the way to completion, as a certain decision on Elpida's part regarding an aspect of the DRAM industry seems poised to end in failure.Some consumers may be aware of the borderline dismal situation on the DRAM market, at least as far... |
28 February 2011
10:26 GMT |
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As end-users know, technology is always evolving, and with companies always on the lookout for new technologies, it was just a matter of time before a duo like Elpida-Rexchip delivered something like the 4F2 technology. As some end-users might know, the DRAM industry is not doing so well in terms of sales, at least ... |
10 February 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Elpida and PowerChip have just announced that the two companies have reached a non-binding understanding, enabling the former to purchase all PC DRAM products manufactured by Powerchip and sell them under its own brand.
The agreement covers both existing and future memory chips produced by Powerchip, and is probab... |
31 January 2011
08:06 GMT |
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It would seem that no problems on the DRAM market can dissuade chip and module makers from moving on with their plans, so Elpida seems quite bent on releasing 4GB DDR3 modules starting in early 2011.Those that have been keeping track of developments on the DRAM market will know that prices have been falling for mont... |
21 December 2010
09:14 GMT |
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Although it initially started as a very respectable memory manufacturer, Rambus seems to have slightly changed its focus over the past few years, the company filing more patent lawsuits than launching really innovative products lately, and for this reason, some companies, such as Elpida, prefer to go ahead and pay th... |
6 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Even in the midst of rapidly falling prices of DDR3 memory, it seems that makers of such products are still sticking to their production and node transition schedules, and Elpida has now started to ship its newest chips.There have been many announcements in which a certain piece of hardware was as being described as... |
29 November 2010
02:28 GMT |
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It is not often that a company can claim to have outmatched all of its rivals in a certain area, but this is exactly what Elpida seems to have done, at least on the server memory market.On the desktop market, high-end systems can usually make do with 8 GB of RAM, sometimes even less, while enthusiast-grade machines ... |
11 November 2010
08:57 GMT |
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Even with all the so-called uncertainties regarding demand for DRAM and NAND memory, makers of semiconductors are still quite eagerly stepping up production of new chips, Elpida having now completed the development of its 30nm-based 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM.Though there are a myriad of memory modules on the market, they are, ... |
29 September 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Elpida unveils multiple DRAMs over the years but it has always been especially gleeful when it had the chance to boast about being the first in the industry to accomplish a certain feat. Somehow, the company managed one such feat just a short while ago, and issued an official announcement to commemorate the event. Wh... |
28 July 2010
11:54 GMT |
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Just a short time ago, Toshiba and Samsung announced that they had entered a partnership meant to facilitate the creation of DDR2 NAND Flash memory. This NAND, they hope, will eventually help increase the hold over the consumer electronic, mobile phone and storage markets. Not keen on falling behind, Elpida and Spans... |
22 July 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Either the economic recession is finally going away or hardware makers have discovered a new taste for daring forays and experiments. This is what some of the latest developments on the IT market seem to suggest. For instance, Transcend recently decided to see what would happen if it started providing Class 10 SDXC m... |
24 June 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Even though most cellphones made do with greyscale screens until several years ago, technology has evolved so far that the market is now littered with handsets capable of video playback and 3D gaming. Of course, as such devices become more sophisticated, better processing, memory and video technologies are required. ... |
14 May 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Now that consumer central processing units have reached six-core designs and there are enough DirectX 11-capable graphics cards to go around, the next logical step is for RAM to undergo a similar evolution. This evolution took a step forward when Samsung started mass-producing its 4Gb DDR3 chips, based on the 40nm ma... |
22 April 2010
08:57 GMT |
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Elpida follows in Hynix's footsteps and reveals a development in no direct way related to the launch of Intel's Pineview processors. Even more coincidentally, this piece of news is, like that from Hynix, also about the developments concerning a certain memory product. Elpida has announced the entrance of it... |
22 December 2009
06:01 GMT |
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While Corsair and Transcend are releasing high-capacity and ultra-fast DDR3 memory kits for the high-end segment, other companies, like Elpida Memory Inc. in this particular case, are, instead, focusing on the lower segment where, not only is affordability a must, but the actual products must do their best to still o... |
17 December 2009
05:19 GMT |
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The demand for better and faster memory has been on the rise along with the popularity growth of digital equipment (digital TV, cameras and others). This propelled memory developers to always improve the speeds and capacities of memory modules in general. Still, among those in need of better RAM are also end-users wh... |
26 November 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Leading Japanese global distributor of DRAM Elpida Memory has been working on its first graphics double data rate random access memory module (GDDR DRAM) ever since it acquired GDDR design rights from the German company Qimonda AG in August 2009. Scheduled to enter the mass production stage in the second half of 2010... |
20 November 2009
09:36 GMT |
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Munich Design Center has been designing GDDR memory modules for the past few months, since it was first allowed to start operating earlier this year, in May to be exact. After months of continued work, the laboratory can finally be said to have reached full-scale operation, having been officially inaugurated. The Mun... |
20 November 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Over the last few years, portable computing devices have become more popular, with notebook sales surpassing that of fully fledged desktops, while the new netbook category catching the customers' interest faster than any other product. With that in mind, the industry is moving towards the adoption of new solutio... |
28 September 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Tokyo, Japan-based Elpida Memory has announced today that it has reached an agreement with the Germany-based Qimonda AG memory vendor to acquire Qimonda technology licenses and a part of the company's design assets, related to the Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR), a memory architecture specifically developed for... |
6 August 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Earlier this month, we wrote an article on a couple of issues that were reported with the “Hyper” RAMs from Elpida, which affected several leading memory vendors, including Corsair, OCZ and Kingston. From the three, Corsair was the only company that decided to remove its Dominator GT Ultra-Performance DRA... |
22 July 2009
09:24 GMT |
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There are a couple of reports that recently emerged on the Internet, pointing to some serious issues with the memory ICs supplied by Elpida Memory to major DRAM vendors, such as Corsair, OCZ and Kingston. As it turns out, some of the company's high-end memory chips are failing and are the cause behind the issues... |
10 July 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Elpida, one of the global leading suppliers of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), has just announced the industry's first 1-Gigabit XDR DRAM module. Based on an x32-bit configuration, the new XDR product comes to provide consumers with features that include an ultra-high speed of 7.2GHz, faster than that of an... |
20 January 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Elpida Memory has announced today that it has successfully completed the development of a 2-gigabit Mobile RAM product, which takes advantage of the features delivered by the 50nm process technology, with a 193nm (ArF) immersion lithography. The company's new product has been specifically built to meet the requi... |
11 December 2008
07:24 GMT |
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Elpida, one of the leading suppliers of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), has announced today that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1GB DDR2 SDRAM. This will deliver 20% more chips from a single 300mm wafer, while volume production is expected to begin before the end of this year. The company has re... |
6 October 2008
06:31 GMT |
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When it comes to choosing your favorite memory modules maker, Buffalo might not turn out to be your first choice. Be that as it may, it does not mean that the company doesn’t deserve credit for having announced the very first DDR3 memory modules to operate at speeds of 2.4GHz. The newly introduced product is st... |
26 September 2008
06:38 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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DRAM markets have been under heavy pressure this year. The memory business is falling apart because of the over-saturated market that pushes the prices lower and lower. The DRAM market uses commodity for profit (namely the profit is the result of volume sales with small extra costs) and the competition is harsh. Thin... |
19 December 2007
02:53 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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Miniaturization is one of the most important trends in technological design nowadays, as it allows for the development of smaller and lighter products, which require a lot less power to operate. Furthermore, since the field of semiconductors and memory modules is always in the forefront of research and development ac... |
7 November 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Elpida Memory just announced that it has begun field testing engineering samples of XDR random access memory chips that are running at an impressive 4.8GHz, over twice the speed of the fastest available DDR3 memory module that is currently available on the market.The XDR memory chips developed and manufactured by Elp... |
6 October 2007
05:31 GMT |
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