Micron sees falling margins for NAND memory chips
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Micron Technology Inc.  on Friday forecast that prices for memory chips used in consumer electronics would be down 30 percent to 40 percent this quarter from the previous one.
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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Another semiconductor company, another bleak outlook. How low can you go?
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Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices says competition in the market for flash memory will hit profits.
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It's good news for users: as CPU and memory chip sales fall, so will prices--to vendors' dismay.
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The chip maker now expects revenue of between $8.3 billion and $8.6 billion due to lower-than-expected worldwide demand for its processors as well as "customer reductions in component inventory levels."
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U.S. stocks declined on Tuesday, weighed down by losses in the technology sector after microchip maker National Semiconductor Corp.  cut its quarterly revenue forecast.
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Intel will miss its 2004 product cost-reduction targets because of a widely publicized string of product delays and problems, but those missteps are largely behind it now, the world&#39;s largest chipmaker said on Tuesday.
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A&#160;sharp decline in DRAM prices&#160;has caused some Taiwanese DRAM makers to cut back on their capital spending plans this year in a bid to shore up the market.&quot;Right now, there is a huge supply in the market,&quot; said Charles Kau, president of Inotera, during a news conference in Kuei Shan, Taiwan.Prices have dropped so much that its hard for DRAM companies to make money. 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 larger loss, of NT$8.2 billion, for the same time period.To combat falling prices, Inotera slashed its 2007 spending and will spend far less on new factories and production lines this year. The company spent NT$44 billion last year to install production lines at a new factory in Taiwan. But the spending figure ended up less than the NT$51.4 billion it had proposed to spend earlier in the year. For 2008, Inotera&#39;s spending will drop even more, to NT$30 billion, as it refits production lines with newer technology that makes chips smaller and more powerful.Nanya Technology reduced its 2007 capital spending to NT$47 billion from a projected NT$60 billion. The company started building a new state-of-the-art factory last year, a plant that will increase production throughout this year. In 2008, Nanya plans to spend NT$40 billion.&quot;This year, capital spending discipline is very important,&quot; said Kau. Spending less can help companies shore up their finances. DRAM factories are expensive, costing around US$2.2 billion or more each, depending on the size and projected output. Companies in the industry depend on strong cash flow as well as loans to pay for the factories.A glut has sent DRAM chip prices tumbling. The contract price of 1Gb DDR2 chips that run at 667MHz fell to US$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.Executives at Inotera and Nanya Technology&#160;forecast a rebound in prices&#160;in the second half of this year, as PC demand rebounds.&quot;Currently, we&#39;re optimistic about the second half because our customers are optimistic about the second half,&quot; said Pai Pei-lin, a vice president at Nanya Technology. He said he hopes the new service pack for Microsoft&#39;s Vista OS, which is due out shortly, will further spur PC buying and help the DRAM industry rebound. More DRAM chips go into PCs than any other product.
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Chip maker plans for smaller, faster, less power-hungry processors.
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OCTOBER 25, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Intel Corp. pulled back the curtain Friday on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster and less power-hungry out as far as 2020.
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ANNUAL growth in global semiconductor sales will probably fall by half in 2005 and memory chip sales growth could collapse as a supply glut saps prices, Samsung Electronics has warned.
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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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Micron Technology Inc. MU.N, a  top-three computer memory chip maker, on Wednesday reported a  quarterly profit on stronger pricing, reversing a year-earlier  loss.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of companies building and designing microprocessors is likely to shrink by approximately 40 percent over the next 10 years, analysts from Gartner Inc. predicted at the research firm's Semiconductor Industry Summit conference here in San Francisco Tuesday.
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Blog: Flash memory companies will be scrambling to fill orders the rest of this year with 25 percent of NAND capacity allocated to Apple, according to a market research firm.