Micron passes Hynix in Q3 DRAM race, says iSuppli
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Micron Technology Inc. edged out Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in the third quarter to regain the number-two position in the worldwide DRAM market, according to a preliminary market-share ranking from iSuppli Corp.
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Rambus Inc. on Thursday said  e-mails from Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor  (000660.KS) support its claims that the rival memory chip  makers conspired to fix prices, sending its shares up 18.5  percent.
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Falling prices causes memory loss Hynix, the Korean computer memory maker, is fleeing the DRAM spot market - because prices are too low. That's not the spin the company is putting on the decision, telling Reuters that it wants to "enhance our flexibility and strengthen our position in the contract market".â¦
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com October 13, 2004, 1:55 PM PT. ZDNet&#39;s survey of IT professionals in October kept upgrading hardware at number two on the businesses radar throughout the year.
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Becomes the first company to plead guilty to conspiring with manufacturers to fix the prices of DRAM chips in a 2-year probe. WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO: Germany&#39;s Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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Both GPUs built on TSMC's 110nm process, reportedly
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Can you top 80? Intel, lBM, AMD and Sun Microsystems will go coring mad next week as the vendors reveal some of their most impressive future chip designs at the ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits) Conference in San Francisco.â¦
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October unveiling alongside AMD dualie Athlon 64 FX
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The DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip next in line to become mainstream for PC users, DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) will start to find its place in significantly more PCs by the third quarter of this year, Taiwanese DRAM executives said Tuesday.Inotera Memories, a DRAM joint venture&#160;by Qimonda and Nanya Technology, started pilot production of 1Gb DDR3 DRAM this year, and plans to have the chips in mass production by the third quarter to meet growing demand.&quot;There is already demand for DDR3, and it will increase as the year goes on,&quot; said Charles Kau, president of Inotera, during a news conference in Kuei Shan, Taiwan.Pai Pei-lin, a vice president at Nanya Technology, forecast that 30 percent of DRAM demand in the fourth quarter will be for DDR3.That&#39;s a significant share of the DRAM market, and indicates the heyday for DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) may be nearing an end. DDR2 has been the main variety of DRAM used in PCs and laptops for the past few years. DDR3 is an incremental improvement over DDR2, offering users faster speeds, lower power consumption and higher bandwidth.Some companies are already shipping DDR3 memory, including Samsung Electronics, but the chips are only going into a small portion of PCs currently rolling off production lines.The current DRAM glut is changing that. For the last year, DRAM makers have been suffering from falling prices for the chips they make, and most companies will likely post a loss for the fourth quarter, when DRAM prices fell off a cliff.The contract price of 1Gb DDR2 chips that run at 667MHz fell to $1.81 each as of Jan. 21, according to DRAMeXchange Technology, which operates a clearinghouse for the chips. Prices of the chips were at $3 at the start of October, when the current price slump hit.Most companies can&#39;t make money with&#160;DDR2 prices so low. On Tuesday, Inotera Memories reported an NT$3.7 billion (US$114.3 million) loss for the fourth quarter of 2007. Nanya Technology reported an even worse loss of NT$8.2 billion for the same time period.For users, the good news is that during chip gluts, DRAM makers often try to rush new technology to the market in a bid to increase sales of higher margin products. That means DDR3 may arrive sooner than it might have and at a lower price to boot.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung Electronics held onto its title as the world's largest producer of DRAMÂ memory chips in 2006 despite a late charge by Hynix Semiconductor, according to a study released Thursday. Hynix leapfrogged Qimonda, jumping into second place by posting a 31 percent increase in DRAM bit shipments from the third to fourth quarter, while the market as a whole grew by only 14 percent in that time, according to iSuppli. In 2006, Samsung claimed DRAM revenues of $9.5 billion, 28 percent of the entire $33.9 billion market, iSuppli said. Hynix followed with 16.6 percent market share, leading Qimonda's 15.9 percent, Micron's 11 percent, and Elpida's 10.4 percent. All other producers were in single digits. Hardware vendors use DRAM semiconductor memory in a vast range of products, including PCs, printers, hard disk drives, mobile phones, digital cameras, televisions, and game consoles. Although demand will keep growing, iSuppli says slumping prices in 2007 will take the wind out of those sails, pushing revenue down despite rising sales. The vendors are more optimistic. Qimonda predicts that demand could rise in 2007 because of Microsoft's launch of its newÂ Windows Vista OS as well as other communication and consumer applications, according to the company's Jan. 23 earnings report. Likewise, Samsung predicts that a strong consumer electronics market will push demand for DRAM used in 2.5G and 3G handsets and in game consoles. DRAM vendors also hope to continue momentum by relying on technology advances, planning to shrink their chip architecture from 90 nanometers to 80nm and below in the short term and toÂ upgrade from current DDR2 design to DDR3 in coming years. Despite its dominant position, Samsung suffered in December asÂ one of its executives agreed to serve jail time and pay a large fineÂ as the result of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into price-fixing practices in the industry. The plea was the fifth from a Samsung executive and marked the 18th person from four vendors indicted since December 2003. The other companies charged were Hynix, Elpida, and Infineon (which has since spun off its DRAM division as Qimonda). Â
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South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said fourth-quarter profit rose 35 percent to a record high, beating estimates, on strong sales of computer memory chips, but forecast steep falls in chip prices.
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AMD (Quote, Chart) has climbed aboard the PCI Express train with its latest generation of Athlon64 processors, the company said. The Sunnyvale, Calif.
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The HyperTransport Technology Consortium today announced the first HyperTransport technology expansion connector specification. The new EATX Motherboard/Daughtercard
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Sunnyvale, Calif.-- Advanced Micro Devices will take the high road and the low road in the chip market. Executives at the company&#39;s annual analyst meeting in Sunnyvale Friday outlined a strategy that will, ideally
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Breaking the speed barrier of traditional flash memory, Intel and Micron Thursday announced a new flash memory architecture that increases the data transfer rates in consumer electronics by cutting the bottlenecks affecting conventional NAND flash memory.
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Micron Technology Inc. MU.N,  the No. 3 computer memory chip maker, on Wednesday reported a  quarterly profit on stronger pricing, reversing a year-earlier  loss.