Aeneon Launches DDR3 SO-DIMMs for Notebooks
	A new DDR3 SO-DIMMs (Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Modules) has been announced by Aeneon, the channel and retail brand of Qimonda. The new memory chip is said to provide high performance and power efficiency for the mobile PC industry. The chip is aimed for use on the DDR3 notebooks powered by Intel's Centrino 2 processor technology, the industry's first. Aeneon is offering 1GB and 2GB DDR3-1066 SO-DIMMs to the m ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Confident of GDDR5 Future
	As most of you already know by now, AMD is the first graphics card manufacturer to introduce a GDDR5-enabled card. However, the one thing that might have gone by unknown in this is that AMD succeeded this by partnering with memory chip maker Qimonda, which, back in May, announced that it had started shipping GDDR5 memory chips to the Sunnyvale company. On that note, the company has recently announced that it feels confident ab ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Takes GDDR5 to Mass-Production: More Pixels on Your LCD
	German memory specialist Qimonda has announced that it was ready to ramp up production of the next generation of memory chips in the GDDR5 family. The advent of the new solution is likely to spark another battle between AMD's graphics division and its arch-rival Nvidia ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Technology Partnership Between Elpida Memory and Qimonda
	The leading global suppliers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), Elpida Memory and Qimonda AG, announced on Thursday that it had agreed on joining a technology partnership on developing memory chips (DRAMs) and process technologies for their manufacturing, and had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in that direction. Elpida and Qimonda will cooperate in boosting innovative 4F² cell concept in calendar year 2010. The j ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Joins Nanya for 50-Nanometer DRAM Development
	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 agreement in the next few months for a joint program in DRAM development and design at sub-50-nanometer nodes ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nanya to Dismiss Partnership With Micron
	Nanya Technology was reported to have entered a technology partnership with US-based Micron company. The allegations also claimed that the two companies were getting ready to enter a joint-venture for DRAM chips manufacturing. Nanya was also supposed to kick its German partner Qimonda out of their current business. The report alleged that Nanya had already inked the memorandum of understanding with Micron, and the two compani ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 10:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda to Start Sampling Power-Efficient DDR3 Modules
	Qimonda announced that it started shipping samples of its upcoming power-saving DDR3 SO-DIMM memory to its key partners and original equipment manufacturers. This is a refurbished version of their previous DDR3 memory modules, that is much improved in terms of power-saving. Power efficiency is extremely important for this type of memory modules, since they will operate inside notebooks and ultra-mobile PCs. The low energy con ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 11:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Memory Manufacturers Gear Up for Increased DDR3 Demand
	Memory industry is undergoing a process of change, triggered by the advent of the third generation of double-data rate memory modules (DDR3). As this type of memory is becoming cheaper and cheaper, it gets widely adopted in substantially more PCs worldwide. Many companies are focusing on developing 1GB cards using DDR3 DRAM chips, as they may be the next Messiah in the industry. Inotera Memories is a memory joint venture initi ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda to Shed Jobs in US R&D Facilities
	German memory manufacturer Qimonda has announced that it has plans of shutting down one of the company's research and development facilities in Williston or Burlington, Vermont. This action is likely to reflect upon 75 of around 125 Vermont employees that are to lose their jobs. The rest of 50 employees have been invited to pack and move to a plant in Cary, North Carolina. The company expects that not all the invited employe ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Launches The XTUNE DDR3 Memory
	DDR3 memory modules are finally gaining some ground against the older but very popular DDR2 standard as more hardware manufacturing companies are adopting the new modules and this trend is observable even among smaller producers like Quimonda AG. AENEON, one of the Quimonda AG's brands, just announced the launch of a DDR3 compliant memory module that is operating at a clock frequency of 1333MHz, while keeping the latency tim ... [read more >>]
	04 October 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Faster and Bigger Video Memories
	Graphics card market is a very dynamic one as manufacturers of both graphics processing units and integrated boards fight to squeeze as much performance as possible for their designs. While graphics processing units, GPUs for short, get just about all the credit for the graphics performance, there is a component that is often overlooked, the graphics memory. Video memory differs from general computer system memory in several ways ... [read more >>]
	30 August 2007, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infineon Wants Out of Qimonda
	German chip and memory maker Infineon Technologies announced that it will lower its shares in Qimonda to less than 50 percent over the next two years. Qimonda started in 2006 as a division of Infineon Technologies that specialized in making different kinds of chips for computers and the parent company still owns the vast majority of Qimonda shares, around 86 percent. According to a company ... [read more >>]
	07 August 2007, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda's Memory Chip Spin-off Is So Far a Financial Failure
	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 no less than 197 million euro. A year earlier, the net loss for the same quarter was only 23 million euro. The ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 08:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Storage Solutions from SanDisk and Qimonda
	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 E ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2007, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Plans GDDR5
	Qimonda AG – according to market studies made by iSuppli – is the second graphics manufacturer in the world, after Samsung. They want to skip ahead by leaving GDDR4 memory production behind in favor of GDDR5 memory. The previous rename that Infineon had built up helped Qimonda triple its share market from 10 to 30%. According to Robert Feurle, vice president for Qimonda, the jump in the computer industry will not be towards di ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DDR3 for The Masses, But Not from Samsung
	The introduction of DDR3 memory modules comes at the same time as Intel is preparing its chipsets that support the new 45nm processors. AMD has said that it will use DDR3 memory, but now, they probably decided that they will not wait as long as they have done with DDR2, before they use the technology on their products; but when are they going to actually use these memory types, that remains to be seen. Micron Technologies and ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia