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Qimonda's Troubles Propel Elpida in the Graphics Memory Business

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

Despite Financial Trouble, Qimonda Marches On

Despite having encountered a number of problems, due to the ongoing global economic crisis, memory maker Qimonda has just announced that it has finished the first functional module based on the smallest 2GB memory chip ever announced in the DRAM industry. The new chip has been designed using the company's leadin...

4 February 2009
06:14 GMT

Qimonda Files for Insolvency, Competitors Likely to Benefit

It looks like the global low economy has made another victim in the IT industry, as Germany's chipmaker Qimonda has recently filed an application with the local court in Munich to open the necessary proceedings for insolvency. The DRAM maker claims that the insolvency petition is a direct result of the massive d...

27 January 2009
05:30 GMT

Qimonda Plans Energy Efficient DDR3 for 2009

With most of the IT industry heading towards greener and more energy efficient solutions, Qimonda also intends to leverage its newly launched production of energy-saving buried wordline technology (BML). This feature is expected to become available across the company's upcoming DDR3 memory modules, which the com...

11 December 2008
06:27 GMT

Qimonda Launches XTUNE DDR3-1600 Kits

Aeneon by Qimonda, the channel and retail brand of Qimonda, has recently announced that its latest DDR3-1600 Triple Channel Kits (CL9), which come in 3GB and 6GB flavors for the new Intel Core i7 processor and Intel X58 Express chipset, have already become available on the market. The new kits feature three memory mo...

1 December 2008
06:55 GMT

Qimonda Completes Selling Inotera Shares to Micron

Qimonda has recently announced that the sale of its Inotera stake to Micron had been completed, as well as the receipt of the second tranche of $200 million in cash. Back in October, Qimonda and Micron inked an agreement through which Micron was to purchase Qimonda's shares in Inotera for $400 million in cash in...

28 November 2008
05:07 GMT

Testing Results for Radeon HD 4870X2 Rev2

AMD has put a lot of work into the newest Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics board in its attempt to make it the next true high-end card. At least, when it comes to the company's graphics product line, this card goes straight to the top. As showed before, Radeon HD 4870X2 pairs RV770 GPUs on the same PCB, and features hi...

28 July 2008
03:12 GMT

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 Centrin...

23 July 2008
03:55 GMT

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 me...

10 July 2008
06:36 GMT

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, given the fact that GDDR5 memory will deli...

12 May 2008
06:33 GMT

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 tha...

24 April 2008
10:11 GMT

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...

3 March 2008
08:48 GMT

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.T...

21 February 2008
10:02 GMT

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...

29 January 2008
11:29 GMT

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 DD...

23 January 2008
03:56 GMT

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 bee...

20 December 2007
04:04 GMT

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...

4 October 2007
06:55 GMT

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...

30 August 2007
05:39 GMT

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 ...

7 August 2007
03:26 GMT

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...

28 July 2007
08:14 GMT

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 Executive Officer at Qimonda, declared that "Offering ...

26 April 2007
05:51 GMT

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%.A...

26 March 2007
08:33 GMT

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 product...

26 March 2007
03:30 GMT


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