The rapid spread of coronavirus in Korea has raised increasing concerns about global supply of memory chips in 2020 as Korean makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, account for...

Industry observers are generally upbeat about memory chip prices this year, despite the coronavirus outbreak.

Many IC companies are now designing high-performance microprocessors, application processors, and other advanced logic devices based on 10nm and 7nm process technology, according...

DRAM contract prices will start rising in the first quarter of 2020, as PC OEMs and cloud service providers become more active in replenishing inventory, according to DRAMeXchange.

SSD retail prices in China have been rising unexpectedly, as channel distributors have become reluctant to sell amid worries about possible supply chain disruptions caused by the...

The world's top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month, with their combined capacity representing 53% of the world's total wafer...

Server memory demand continues to be strong thanks to a pull-in of orders from US- and China-based datacenter and server vendors, which will help sustain contract price growth in...

As one of China's semiconductor hubs, Wuxi in Jiangsu province has imposed strict entry restrictions on employees from seven provinces recording high numbers of coronavirus infections,...

The supply of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips is set to fall short of demand in the second half of 2020, although a pick-up in end-market demand may arrive later than expected, according...

Winbond Electronics, a maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory, swung to its first quarterly loss in 27 quarters.

Electronic-grade solvent demand from Taiwan's chipmaking industry is expected to be bullish, according to a supplier who is reportedly in TSMC's supply chain.

Micron Technology has announced mass production of what the company claims is the world's first low-power DDR5 DRAM that will be used in the soon-to-be-released Xiaomi Mi 10 smartp...

DRAMeXchange has reiterated its previous forecast that DRAM and NAND flash memory contract prices for the first quarter of 2020 will rise slightly on quarter.

Mobile DRAM demand for smartphones is likely to disappoint in the first half of 2020, as the coronavirus outbreak may hit sales of new 5G-compatible phones, according to market sou...

Despite market observers' concern about China's coronavirus outbreak dampening consumer demand in the first quarter, Adata Technology chairman Simon Chen is still optimistic that...

SK Hynix saw its operating profits plunge 87% to KRW2.71 trillion (US$2.28 billion) in 2019, while consolidated revenues decreased 33% on year to KRW26.99 trillion. The company generated...

Anticipating that memory chip prices will be rising this year, memory module makers have started replenishing inventory while also making upward adjustments in their DRAM module quotes,...

Semiconductor equipment suppliers including distributors have seen demand surge from China where a number of wafer fabs are being equipped for additional production capacity, according...

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, according to Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the...

Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) expects its revenues to be higher than year-ago levels in the first quarter of 2020, and is positive about its performance in all of the ye...

DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has developed 10nm process technology in-house, with risk production to kick off in the second half of 2020, according to the Taiwan-based company.

Micron Technology has begun sampling DDR5 Registered DIMMs (RDIMM) based on its 1znm process technology, according to the company.

At the ongoing CES, SK Hynix has unveiled its PCIe NVMe consumer SSD series. The drives are built with SK Hynix' 128-layer 4D NAND flash, just six months after the company announced...

Winbond Electronics, a maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory, has reported consolidated revenues slipped 4.7% on year to NT$48.77 billion (US$1.62 billion) in 2019.

Memory module firm Adata Technology has reported consolidated revenues surged about 19% from a year earlier to NT$2.48 billion (US$82.5 million) in December 2019. During the month,...