Samsung sees chip sales slowing
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Growth in chip sales is set to halve next year due to a glut in the market, Korean chipmaker Samsung has warned. The firm said memory chips were in for a slowdown, with prices for flash memory set to fall as much as 40% in the three months to September.
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Europe&#39;s top consumer electronics group Philips cut the forecast for its closely watched chip unit on Friday and predicted a significant slowdown for the semiconductor industry next year.
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Global microchip sales will grow  by only 1.8 percent this year, much slower than an earlier  projection of a 10 percent increase, as prices in key markets  tumble, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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The maker of analog microchips said Tuesday its  fourth-quarter revenue would miss earlier targets because of  weak demand from computing and communications equipment makers.
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The semiconductor industry is showing the first signs of slowing growth, trimming purchases of raw materials and production equipment as demand slows, industry executives and analysts said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL (Dow Jones)--A precipitous fall in prices for flash-memory chips and anticipated demand for next-generation DDR2 dynamic random access memory chips has spurred Samsung Electronics Co.
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CHEJU, South Korea  - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS sees global mobile phone sales growing faster than   expected this year, while its own handset sales will just meet   the target, its president for handset business said on   Thursday.
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Texas Instruments Inc., the leading maker of chips for cell phones, cut its profit and revenue forecast for the fourth quarter on Monday due to slower sales of semiconductors, and it warned that sales could weaken further early next year.
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Applied Micro Circuits Corp., a communications chip maker, on Thursday said it expects lower second-quarter revenue compared to its first quarter, based on soft sales in Asia and lower orders.
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(InfoWorld) - Struggling memory chip vendors may see a ray of hope in the near future as prices for DRAMÂ chips stoppedÂ their long slideÂ during the first half of July, according to a report released Tuesday. However, that pause is likely to be brief as DRAM suppliers still have too much inventory in their warehouses, said the report from iSuppli. As vendors like SamsungÂ and Hynix SemiconductorÂ seek extra revenue by selling off those inventories, prices could drop again, said iSuppli analyst Nam Hyung Kim. Therefore, Kim upgraded his rating of the short-term DRAM market only from "negative" to "neutral," saying he is not yet ready to declare a recovery in that sector. Falling DRAM pricesÂ help keep prices low for consumer electronics like PCs, MP3 music players and digital cameras. But it puts big pressure on chip makers to find new revenue. For example, in April Samsung blamed tumbling DRAM prices for helping toÂ push its net profit down 15 percentÂ in the first quarter of 2007, compared to the same period last year. In recent years, some vendors have broken the law in that effort, leading to price-fixing convictions by the U.S. Department of Justice against Samsung and Hynix, as well as their competitors Infineon Technologies, Elpida Memory, and Mitsubishi Electric. Price collusion by DRAM vendors can also harm business computer buyers, according toÂ a lawsuit filed in May against Hynix by Sun. Sun claims the South Korean company inflated prices for its DRAM chips, leading to artificially high prices for Sun servers and storage systems. Some chip vendors are trying to improve their profits by reducing their DRAM production in favor of NAND flash, the memory technology used in popular items like Apple's iPod music players and iPhone smartphone. That transition will help to keep the DRAM market strong in the third quarter of 2007 by avoiding a surplus, Kim said. But even the NAND market will begin to droop in the second half of 2007, as memory manufacturers rush into that sector and force another price decline, he predicted.
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Samsung Electronics , the world's top memory chip maker, reported a smaller-than expected 5 percent drop in quarterly profit on Friday as a steep fall in computer memory chip prices overshadowed improvements in flat screens.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. expects strong demand and cost cuts to boost second-half profit in its chip business, it said Friday.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Advanced Micro Devices Inc  has delayed shipment of major chip products until next year but aims to return to profitability in 2008, Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer said on Thursday.
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Intel Corp.'s INTC.O upcoming  mid-quarter report will be closely watched for signs of weak  back-to-school computer sales, though recent market share gains  in memory chips could help offset any softness in computer  microprocessor demand.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s third-quarter operating profit has fallen around 10 percent short of market forecasts due to weak sales of flat screens, a source familiar with the company's business said on Friday.
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Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), the  world&#39;s top memory chip maker, reported a smaller-than-expected  5 percent drop in quarterly profit on Friday after a steep fall  in computer memory chip prices overshadowed improvements in  flat screens.
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Intel Corp.'s (INTC.O) upcoming mid-quarter report will be closely watched for signs of weak back-to-school computer sales, though recent market share gains in memory chips could help offset any softness in computer microprocessor demand.