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OCMemory Releases New RAM Without Coolers

Hynix is one of the semiconductor manufacturers that haven't yet abandoned the random access memory industry, unlike PQI, Elpida and others. That is why its RAM chips are going to be used in more than the usual number of DRAM modules and kits from now on. The OCM2400CL10D-8GBN from Japanese company OCMemory ...

10 December 2012
03:04 GMT

Exceleram Presents Extensive X Series Dual-Channel Memory Collection

When we say that Exceleram's new X Series memory line reaches 8 GB, we mean that the highest-end dual-channel kits offer the amount (4GB per module). Constructed with Hynix CFR chips, the modules actually come in both 2 GB and 4 GB, though the former is only available standalone, as the E30106X 2GB. Since Exce...

16 October 2012
12:41 GMT

HP and SK Hynix Will Begin Selling ReRAM in 2013

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

Rambus Wins the Case Against SK Hynix

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

Hynix Shows DDR4 Memory and 1Xnm NAND Flash

We reported here on OCZ’s new Vector drive and here about the Argon processor that powers it, but most important is that the company’s CEO says that the new device will change the SSD world. We know that NAND prices will fall quite a bit as Toshiba gets its production back on track, and we reported that h...

17 September 2012
14:11 GMT

Hynix Prepares Client-Side SSD

Korean memory company Hynix is one of the few flash manufacturers that were not into SSD manufacturing. Samsung, Intel and Micron all have their own line of SSD products. Hynix decided to join the ranks of SSD manufacturers and has just announced a new client-side SSD, on its official website. We don’t know ye...

26 June 2012
05:01 GMT

Hynix Acquires SSD Controller Company

Hynix is the world’s second largest memory manufacturer. It’s a Korean company that was born in 1993 as Hyundai Electronics, but it merged with Korean conglomerate SK Electronics. The company is well known for producing RAM chips, but it is also one of the big NAND manufacturers in the world. In the RAM ...

20 June 2012
09:49 GMT

DRAM Makers Stop Cutting Prices, Cause Rebound

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

Memory Maker Expands Horizons, Hynix Becomes SK Group Member

We've learned that the SK Group, an industrial conglomerate from South Korea, has invested an undisclosed sum of money into Hynix Semiconductor. What this means is that Hynix will henceforth be called SK Hynix and will start making other sorts of semiconductors besides memory chips. The company is already a ...

27 March 2012
20:31 GMT

Hynix NAND Plant Being Set Up in China

Hynix may be a memory maker based in Korea, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have plants anywhere else in the world.In fact, like so many other product manufacturers, it has facilities in China.It so happens that the factory located in Wuxi, China, is going to start pulling its weight on the NAND Flash mark...

15 March 2012
11:40 GMT

DDR4 RAM Demonstrated at ISSCC, Will Enter Manufacture in 2013

DDR4, the next DRAM memory standard, is expected to be massively adopted by 2014, which means that the companies behind its existence have to start showing prototypes now instead of later. It so happens that the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) has just taken place (between February 19 and 23)....

25 February 2012
01:04 GMT

Verdict Reached on Whether Micron and Hynix Fixed Memory Prices

Rambus has been locked in a lawsuit against Micron and Hynix over whether or not the latter two conspired to keep its RDRAM out of the market through price fixing. Now, a verdict has finally been reached, one that, though it may and will be appealed, sided with the defendants. During the late nineties, Rambus was t...

17 November 2011
16:51 GMT

HP and Hynix Start Using Memristors for Real

Memristors may still be a work in progress, but Hynix and HP seem to have reached the point where they can give a time frame, of sorts, for when products based on them will appear. Memristor is a shortened form of Memory Resistor, which has two distinct advantages over what is used on today's flash drives an...

10 October 2011
02:36 GMT

Toshiba and Hynix Develop and Manufacture MRAM

In a not so shocking turn of events, Toshiba and Hynix have announced that they are pooling their resources in order to create Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistance Random Access Memory (MRAM).The IT market is in no way a stranger to partnerships, since joining forces often yields new and improved products and tech...

13 July 2011
05:26 GMT

Hynix Develops Its First DDR4 Memory Module

Hynix has just announced that it has developed its first high-performance DDR4 memory modules that are designed for use in micro-server environments, making it the second manufacturer in the world to develop a DDR4 module, after Samsung. The 2GB sticks are compliant with the JEDEC standard, are built using the com...

4 April 2011
10:00 GMT

Hynix Starts mass Producing 20nm 64Gb NAND

Technologies are always advancing and the processes on which semiconductors are manufactured are periodically moving on to more advanced nodes. On the NAND Flash memory front, Hynix recently started experimenting with the 20nm manufacturing process technology and even developed a high-capacity chip based on it. Now,...

9 August 2010
03:45 GMT

No Buyers Found for Hynix Controlling Stake

The group of nine financial institutions that hold the controlling stake for Hynix Semiconductor, for the third time, had received no letters of intent from possible purchasers when they closed bids, even though the closing date was extended by two weeks. This development comes even though Hynix is the second largest...

13 February 2010
06:08 GMT

Hynix Launches 2Gb DDR2 DRAM for Mobile Applications

Hynix has been the first to introduce not one, but several types of DDR chips, with two of the more recent ones being last year's 54nm manufacturing process-based 1Gb DDR2 chip and the world's first 40nm-based 2Gb GDDR5 chip. Eager to introduce yet another in the 'world's first' series, Hynix...

13 January 2010
09:51 GMT

Hynix Intros World's First 2Gb GDDR5 Chip Based on the 40nm Process

Today, news has been mainly about the sudden release of the Intel Atom N450 Pineview processor. Immediately after the launch, companies like ECS, MSI and Dell raced to show off their respective hardware products which either are meant to be used with or already make us of the processor. Hynix, however, distinguished...

21 December 2009
11:38 GMT

Hynix Semiconductor Has Had Its 40nm Validated by Intel

The actual products validated by the Santa Clara-based enterprise are the 2GB DRAM, a 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM and a 2GB DDR3 UDIMM, both running at 1333MHz and on 1.5V. Having already started mass-producing these products, the Korean memory maker hopes to secure a larger part of the high-performance server market."The curre...

20 November 2009
07:05 GMT

Hynix Announces Mobile 1Gb DDR2 DRAM Chip

The continuous trend in the mobile phone market towards the use of powerful devices, called smartphones, drives the industry players towards developing handsets and phone parts that can provide phone users with about the same performance as computer parts can offer, and such an example comes today from the mobile DRA...

28 April 2009
06:37 GMT

Hynix Intros World's First 54nm 1GB DDR2 DRAM

Seoul, Korea-based Hynix Semiconductor, a leading provider of flash-based memory products, has recently announced that it has successfully developed the world's first mobile 1GB DDR2 DRAM that takes advantage of the company's new 54nm process technology. The newly announced solution will provide customers w...

27 April 2009
03:41 GMT

Hynix Announces 40nm 1Gb DDR3 DRAM

With the two leading processor makers, Intel and AMD, now both ready to provide support for the next generation of DDR memory, DDR3 memory technology keeps improving, enabling higher levels of performance and better power consumption features. Just recently, Hynix Semiconductor announced that it had developed a 1GB (...

9 February 2009
03:41 GMT

Elpidia Rumored to Plan Buying Powerchip and ProMOS

The DRAM market is going through some rough times these days, and the makers are reported to register rather great loses amid weak demand and low selling prices. According to the latest news, some of them are still strong on the market, and even plan expanding through the acquisition of smaller manufacturers. One of ...

28 December 2008
06:30 GMT

Hynix to Cut Jobs, Reduce Salaries

According to the latest news on the Web, Hynix Semiconductor Inc is starting to cut its workforce and trim executive salaries as a means of reducing costs amid economic downturn. As the latest reports unveil, the South Korean memory supplier Hynix is set to lower the number of its executives by 30 percent, while also...

8 December 2008
11:26 GMT

Hynix Announces World's First 2Gb Mobile DRAM

Hynix Semiconductor has just announced that it has successfully developed the world's first 2Gb Mobile DRAM using the 54nm technology. The company's solution will enable upcoming mobile internet devices (MIDs) and other small-sized, portable computer systems to deliver a higher capacity memory solution. &nb...

3 December 2008
07:44 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

Hynix Unveils Ultra-Fast Memory for Mobile Computing

Memory manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor has just revealed another memory chip targeted at mobile applications, with lower power requirements and faster data transfer rates. The company is currently placed second on the memory market, right after Samsung Electronics, and the new chips could bring Hynix increased marke...

7 April 2008
17:06 GMT

Samsung, Hynix to Create Nett-Gen Memory Joint-Venture

World's largest memory chip providers, Samsung and Hynix, announced that they will collaborate for achieving the next generation of semiconductors. Both chip manufacturing companies will invest a share of $9.46 million, as part of a South Korean research and development program that is backed by the South Korean...

26 January 2008
05:32 GMT

Hynix and Ovonyx Joining Forces

Hynix Semiconductor just announced that it has signed an agreement with a number of rival companies, including Ovonyx, in order to develop a new breed of non-volatile flash memory modules that are supposed to bring greater data storage densities as well as faster access to information. The new breed of flash memory i...

2 October 2007
09:10 GMT

Hynix Storms The NAND Industry

Nowadays NAND based memory chips are found in almost every electronic device from music players to data storage solutions and computers, so the entire NAND memory manufacturing industry is experiencing another booming expansion after a few months of shipments decline and uncertainty. The currently adopted NAND fabric...

7 September 2007
05:22 GMT

One Tiny Piece of RAM

The Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor is one of the well-established companies that are active in the field of computer memories, both video and system ones. While video intended memories do not get really big, there is a very strong tendency among computer users and manufacturers to use bi...

13 August 2007
11:42 GMT

Hynix Aims for The Top

Hynix Semiconductor is a Korean chip manufacturer with some big plans for the near future. It only needs some time to reap the rewards of careful and aggressive investments in next generation products. The Hynix president Kim Jong-Kap recently said that "several companies have expressed interest in buying a 36 percen...

25 July 2007
10:11 GMT

Flash Chips Are Getting Scarcer

Two of the largest Flash manufacturers in the world, Samsung and Hynix, are having trouble producing enough NAND chips to meet demand, says vnunet.com. The Taiwan based Internet news outlet, Digitimes, cited sources from within the two major companies, and the conclusion is that the two Korean manufacturers are havin...

12 July 2007
09:08 GMT

SanDisk Teams Up with Hynix

The two companies have signed a memorandum through which they begin the collaboration in the development, manufacturing and selling process of NAND memory and NAND related products. In this new project, they are undertaking both companies will invest equal amounts of money.O.C.Kwon, Senior Vice President of Hynix Sem...

21 March 2007
11:35 GMT


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