Building on bullish growth in first-quarter 2020 in weak market conditions, the world's top-10 semiconductor suppliers managed to continue their revenue growth at a rate of 2.4% in...

China's memory startup Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) will be ramping its NAND chip output slowly, according to industry sources.

DRAM and NAND flash chipmakers will be engaged in inventory adjustments during the fourth quarter of 2020, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC distributors.

Despite a recent pick-up in NAND flash spot prices, the memory ASPs will still be on a downward trend until Lunar New Year in February 2021, according to KS Pua, chairman for memory...

Spot market prices for DRAM memory have rallied 10-15% so far in September 2020, according to sources at memory module houses. Huawei's aggressive chip purchases prior to new US sanctions...

Winbond Electronics and Macronix International have reported sequential increases in August consolidated revenues of 7.5% and 0.5%, respectively.

With major chipmakers ramping up their quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash output, SSDs utilizing the technology storing four bits per cell have become commercially available and are...

Samsung Electronics and some others have held nearly four months of DRAM and NAND flash inventories on average, due to a slowdown in orders for datacenter applications and overall...

Silicon Motion Technology with its PCIe Gen4 SSD controllers has reportedly cut into the supply chain of the world's top-4 notebook vendors for their new Tiger Lake products set for...

Revenues of the global NAND flash industry increased 6.5% sequentially to US$14.5 billion in the second quarter of 2020, when bit shipments and ASPs both grew about 3% on quarter,...

DRAM and NAND flash shipments are likely to disappoint in the second half of 2020, due to weakening demand for Huawei smartphones, as well as shipments for notebooks hit by several...

The need for memory solutions in embedded systems is rapidly increasing, in line with the surging growth of Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G-enabled...

Flash device controller specialist Phison Electronics has enjoyed robust demand for PCIe Gen4 SSDs thus far in 2020, which boosted its overall SSD controller sales during the first...

The DRAM and NAND flash markets will be oversupplied until the first half of 2021, according to Chang Chia-kun, president for memory module maker Apacer Technology.

Growth rates across most IC segments are expected to improve in 2020 but only mildly, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to IC Insights. In 2019, only six IC product...

NAND flash device controller specialist Silicon Motion Technology expects to post revenues of between US$114 million and US$120 million in the third quarter of 2020, down 12-17% sequentially,...

DRAM and NAND flash are expected to repeat as the two largest IC segments again in 2020 after holding the same positions in 2019, according to IC Insights.

Specialty DRAM and flash memory maker Winbond Electronics returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2020, ending a streak of two consecutive quarterly losses.

Macronix International continues to see its production lines run at full capacity, while scaling up substantially its 19nm NAND chip output, according to CY Lu, president for the...

Memory chipmakers have seen their inventory levels start swelling amid continued weak demand for smartphones, according to industry sources.

SK Hynix has reported operating profits of KRW1.95 trillion (US$1.62 billion) on consolidated revenue of KRW8.61 trillion for the second quarter of 2020.

KLA has announced the eSL10 e-beam patterned-wafer defect inspection system, which is designed to accelerate time-to-market for high-performance logic and memory chips, including...

Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase 6% to US$63.2 billion in 2020 compared to US$59.6 billion in 2019,...

Gaming products and creator-focused notebooks will be driving several memory module makers' revenue growth in the second half of 2020, according to industry sources.

Phison Electronics plans to reduce its stake in a joint venture it formed with Kingston Technology.