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Where once the memory market was suffering from a constant decline in prices, now chips and modules are getting more and more expensive, with no signs of stopping any time soon.
Enough time has passed for an examination of the month of April 2013 to be successfully made, and what DRAMeXchange has to share isn'... |
11 May 2013
05:38 GMT |
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Back in 2012, things were bad on the DRAM industry. Not as bad as in 2011, or 2010 and 2009, but bad enough that SKY Hynix, like many other companies, found themselves in the red.
That is to say, they lost money instead of making any sort of profit.
Now that the situation on the memory market is improving, however,... |
25 April 2013
16:11 GMT |
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An expansion in fabs that manufacture DRAM memory chips wouldn't necessitate any new construction work these days, because most were partially shut down last year and the year before that.
At the time, sales of memory were so low compared to supply that this was the only option left, besides letting chip prices... |
25 April 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Much as consumers might hate it, memory products have been growing in price over the past several months, and it seems April is no different.
In fact, according to a report by DRAMeXchange, contract prices for 4 GB DDR3 modules increased by 8% during the first two weeks of the month.
That has left them at an averag... |
18 April 2013
10:40 GMT |
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There is something to say about most memory modules: they are all the same across the board, no matter the manufacturer or the brand. Sometimes, though, an uncanny offer is made, like now.
ADATA Technology Co., Ltd., a supplier of NAND Flash and dynamic random access memory products worldwide, has introduced the Ga... |
18 April 2013
03:53 GMT |
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One would think that with all the media coverage received by 40nm, 28nm, 22nm and smaller manufacturing processes, there would be more semiconductors built in such facilities.
IC Insights discovered that this is not the case, and that a surprising amount of the industry's overall manufacturing capacity continu... |
10 April 2013
03:27 GMT |
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Currently, desktop PCs and laptops are the products that account for the majority of DRAM memory chip sales, but not the ones that can determine if the memory industry goes up or down.
Sadly, these market segments are also stagnating, if not outright declining, which is why they don't determine the path of the... |
30 March 2013
07:26 GMT |
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The times when prices of dynamic random access memory were in free fall are long past, and Micron, the world’s third greatest supplier, is proving all too eager to draw attention to this particular fact.
Had the suspicions of foul play degenerated into an outright legal action, Micron might not have come out... |
25 March 2013
05:23 GMT |
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It was just the other day that DRAM suppliers got accused of artificially fixing prices, and yet there seems to have been no change in current trends.
That is to say, random access memory chips are still going up in terms of average selling prices.
Naturally, this is something that manufacturers are delighted abo... |
14 March 2013
07:01 GMT |
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Over the past few months, we noted, repeatedly, that the long period of price cuts to random access memory (RAM) was over and that prices were going back up. As some may expect, there are those who consider this suspicious.
The reason is quite understandable really: demand for DRAM is still dropping, so how can the... |
12 March 2013
08:59 GMT |
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We would love to say that Transcend has introduced a super-high capacity memory module for PCs, but that is now what the company's latest press release is about, although the subject matter is DDR3.
In its new announcement, Transcend speaks about the a new 32GB DDR3 Load-Reduced DIMM (LRDIMM).
LRDIMMs are made... |
9 March 2013
03:53 GMT |
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The memory market may have, at one point, been showing further and further drops in prices, but this most joyous trend for customers has been curbed, as recent reports will show.
Since memory makers moved too fast from one manufacturing process to another, they ended up producing too much RAM, from a marketing stan... |
4 March 2013
05:28 GMT |
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When making a solid state storage drive, the maximum capacity ultimately depends on the individual capabilities of each flash chip, which is why Micron is going to cause a stir, however unnoticed by consumers at large. Being one of the greatest innovators in terms of flash memory (as well as DDR3 RAM, but that has ... |
15 February 2013
04:34 GMT |
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There used to be a time when memory modules, like all other pieces of hardware in a computer, were large, bulky, ugly things. Now, though, there are various ways to make them small, and Super Talent is eagerly using them.
DRAM and NAND chip maker Super Talent has formally introduced a new collection of memory modul... |
28 January 2013
02:43 GMT |
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The display industry hasn't been doing badly for as long as that of random access memory, but they seem to have gotten classed together anyway.
A report from Digitimes says that both market segments are likely to rebound this year.
The memory segment, having little room to go any lower, can't exactly go a... |
17 January 2013
10:43 GMT |
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We never really expected it to happen so quickly, but it has: the DRAM and NAND industries are almost at the same level, sales-wise.
Since solid state drives use many more chips and higher capacities than random access memory modules, it was a given that NAND would outpace DRAM eventually.
The severe decline of t... |
22 December 2012
06:52 GMT |
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As we mentioned while relaying the plans of display manufacturers, DRAM product makers are in a real bind. Nanya and Inotera are suffering from exposure to particularly red ledgers.
Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories are two dynamic random access memory makers stationed in Taiwan.
These two are among the surpri... |
22 December 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Having learned that prices of DRAM increased slightly during November, some might have assumed that memory product makers would take a wait and see approach to 2013. This doesn't seem to be the case though.
Just like we speculated, the rise in price is likely a temporary thing, and while another drop might not... |
21 December 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Since memory makers decided to tightly control the amounts of memory chips exiting their manufacturing plants, the constant decline in prices has ebbed until it went away completely.
This month (December 2012), contract prices, on average, went up by a definite amount. The trend started earlier now continues.
Since... |
20 December 2012
10:59 GMT |
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It wasn't so long ago that we reported on yet another memory maker quitting the DRAM market because of how bad things were getting. On the other hand, we also noted that RAM and NAND Flash chips were rising in price again.
A new report is confirming that random access memory chips are experiencing a price rebo... |
17 December 2012
15:21 GMT |
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This isn't another Elpida situation, but PQI does have enough problems on the dynamic random access memory market that there isn't much point in pushing forward from here on out.
According to a report from Digitimes, the number of companies manufacturing memory modules will go down by one next year.
The... |
8 December 2012
06:15 GMT |
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The big players in the dynamic random access memory market, and the small ones too, for that matter, might be in for a rather nasty surprise this quarter (Q4, 2012).
We have said, on several occasions prior to this one, that memory makers were placing their hopes in the release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operati... |
29 October 2012
17:41 GMT |
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We do not really need to repeat how weak the DRAM industry is at the moment, and has been for a couple of years for that matter.
No one is actually foreseeing an improvement on this front, not in the near future. There is something that both manufactures and analysts agree about though: whatever companies are curre... |
18 October 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Because DDR4 will have no bearing on the market until 2014, memory makers have nothing to fall back on as sales continue to disappoint.
This has been going on for years, and some companies bit the dust because of it, even big ones.
DDR4 is seen as the holy grail that might once again spark consumer interest in ac... |
6 October 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Kingston is one of the world’s largest memory companies and, being privately held, it is the world’s largest independent memory company with a market share of 46%. They are also the world’s largest USB flash drives provider, but AMD Fan day will be all about DRAM.
Kingston has just announced that t... |
5 October 2012
02:42 GMT |
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The first DDR4 modules have been in testing for quite some time now and even the first memory controller’s designs are ready for mass production, but DRAM makers are now yet willing make the switch.
DDR3 modules are dirt cheap right now and this is really not desirable not for the DRAM makers nor for the modul... |
3 October 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Japanese semiconductor company Fujitsu, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, has signed a patent license agreement with American company Rambus. It seems that Rambus’ technology that we reported here has made a serious impression on Fujitsu.
Rambus is currently the company with one of the b... |
28 September 2012
11:21 GMT |
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The company’s new A10 “Trinity” APUs will come with a new and interesting RAM drive technology. This is the first time a processor manufacturer has officially supported such an implementation.
Fabless CPU and GPU designer, Texas-based AMD has partnered with Patriot Memory to start making and sellin... |
28 September 2012
10:11 GMT |
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You'd expect that a company willing and capable of buying a rival with a greater market share than its own would have more promising news to give, but this does not seem to be the case.
Micron bought Rexchip and ELPIDA back in early July 2012, after Elpida ended up in a situation where it had to choose between... |
28 September 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Now that DDR4 has been officially announced and the standard has been finalized and it is published as we reported here, we can move on to a unique technology that has not been mass-produced before, but will revolutionize the performance of our computers, tablets, smartphones and servers. HP Labs, the research divis... |
28 September 2012
08:31 GMT |
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JEDEC is an international organization that encompasses many memory chip manufacturers, module manufacturers and other technology companies. The organization develops and sets the standard specification in the DRAM memory field, and now it has officially launched the DDR4 standard. This means that now DDR4 mainboa... |
26 September 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Rambus is an American IP company that has been superficially categorized by many as a patent troll, but as we reported here, the firm is hard at work developing some of the world’s most impressive technologies.
In 2000, Rambus entered a fight with most of the memory manufacturing companies in the world, claimi... |
24 September 2012
07:31 GMT |
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During this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California, many companies have displayed their new and most advanced technologies. One unsurprising, but rather forgotten participant is the well-known technology developer Rambus. The company has managed to make a very bad name for itself after suing mos... |
17 September 2012
21:51 GMT |
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The continued slowdown on the DRAM market, as well as shifting interest on the part of buyers, has caused the layout of the memory industry segment to shift considerably.
Up to the end of March, most of the memory sold during a yearly quarter (three-month period) ended up in personal computers.
The past few years... |
17 September 2012
11:41 GMT |
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One of the conundrums on the DRAM market is that companies have no other way of encouraging sales than launching better and better technologies, and this, in turn, causes existing products to pile up.
SK Hynix hasn't found a solution to this problem, so it is going ahead with this “last resort” tac... |
15 September 2012
01:39 GMT |
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The DRAM market has been struggling to more or less recover over the past six months, but the state of the segment is still bleak, for those in the business of manufacturing and selling memory products at any rate.
We can't say that we didn't expect the poor demand-supply ratio to leave behind another vic... |
12 September 2012
13:11 GMT |
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PC users now have a wonderful opportunity to double the RAM size inside their computers as the prices of this component is now in a continuous downward spiral and the trend is not going to change anytime soon.
The DRAM market is a very tough business to be in right now.
Big companies even go bankrupt because of the... |
12 September 2012
08:41 GMT |
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While GPUs are short, NAND Flash chip sales are sluggish and DRAM especially is doing even worse.
PC OEMs normally have memory stockpiles high enough to last for a few weeks of orders.
Alas, demand for such things is so poor nowadays that, even with lower production on the part of DRAM manufacturers, stockpiles h... |
25 August 2012
07:12 GMT |
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If someone had been hurled into today's present three years ago, someone that would suddenly need to build a new PC from scratch, they would probably gawk at seeing the prices of memory kits. 8 GB DDR3-1333 kits, for instance, sell for under $40 / 32-40 Euro, something that would have come across as absurd bac... |
21 August 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Well-known DRAM and storage manufacturer Transcend has just launched two new DDR3 memory kits. The new sets come with big aluminum heatsinks and can handle more voltage than the reference DDR3 JEDEC specification. Transcend’s dual-channel memory kits are officially called aXeRam DDR3-2133 2x 4 GB and aXeRam DD... |
10 August 2012
22:21 GMT |
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Consolidating our belief that the NAND and DRAM markets are exchanging roles, a recent financial report from DRAMeXchange shows that the random access memory market actually exhibited a double digit growth in the second quarter of 2012. The reason we say that NAND and DRAM have switched roles is because, over the p... |
9 August 2012
02:48 GMT |
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Some information has come out on the revenues of three manufacturers of dynamic random access memory chips (DRAM).
Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories saw the dark side of the segment in July, while Powerchip Technology got the better end of the deal.
According to this report, Nanya and Inotera suffered a decli... |
6 August 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Micron buying Elpida was a foregone conclusion, even with all the reports and counter-reports on the matter, but, now that it has happened, some parties are concerned about what may come next. The analysts at IHS iSuppli have studied the acquisition of Elpida by Micron, and the status of both before and after the f... |
26 July 2012
04:55 GMT |
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After years of downward price advancements, dynamic random access memory finally stabilized in the first half of 2012, and the opposite phenomenon is about to start, if we are reading the signs right. For a long time, DRAM chips, modules and kits outstripped supply by a great margin, causing manufacturers to reduce... |
20 July 2012
06:04 GMT |
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We spoke of Compal's situation and now we look at another company that finished analyzing its recent financial evolution, namely ADATA.
According to this report, ADATA's revenues reached NT$2.4 billion (US$80.4 million / 65 million Euro) last month (June 2012).
That's a rise of 44.8% compared to th... |
7 July 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Samsung, one of the major remaining DRAM manufacturers, is taking the next step in the mission to turn the DRAM industry around.
Since DRAM prices have finally stopped dropping this year, the company intends to see prices going back up, at least a bit.
According to Digitimes, the latest step in this... |
19 June 2012
09:17 GMT |
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We've seen our share of marketing stunts, but Samsung's newest commercial campaign is one of the more amusing ones. The company took the issues of PC freezing, battery drain and never-ending data loading processes and personified them as Fiona Freeze, Battery Brutus and Loading Ball Larry. Hilariously, ... |
14 June 2012
05:37 GMT |
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The other times we wrote about micron DRAM, we usually referred to the likelihood of new chips being employed in better notebook and desktop modules, but the company is aiming for something else this once.
Sure, its new DDR3 devices will be perfectly possible to use in normal DIMMs and SO-DIMMs, but as secondary pu... |
12 June 2012
10:02 GMT |
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While Intel's engineers are receiving honors for inventing 3D Tri-gate transistors, Samsung is setting up a new semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, South Korea.
Since the semiconductor industry is still in a bit of a bind, chip makers have to step up their technological advancement.
UMC has already b... |
9 June 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Just when we finish talking about how not well the NAND Flash storage market is doing, we end up stumbling upon a report saying that DRAM market could finally be getting back on its feet.
Not long ago, we reported on Samsung's alleged plans to stop shipping microSD cards to certain vendors, in an attempt to co... |
1 June 2012
08:27 GMT |
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