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Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron hikes 2027 HBM prices after missing 2026 memory surge on fixed contracts
Micron Technology has sharply raised 2027 prices for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the stacked DRAM packaged with AI accelerators. The increase comes after a year in which fixed contract...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm, Samsung redesign chip packaging as heat limits phone performance
Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics are redesigning how memory is packaged with flagship smartphone processors, as rising chip performance puts greater pressure on the limited cooling...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Applied Materials' EPIC Center adds Kioxia for AI memory, 3D stacking push
Applied Materials announced that Kioxia will join its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in Silicon Valley, California. The two companies will collaborate...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron sees no end to the memory shortage, even after new fabs open in 2028
Micron told investors on September 30 that it cannot say when memory supply will catch up with demand. It expects the shortage to get worse over the next two years, even though additional...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron's record quarter rests on pricing power as customers lock in 2027 supply
Micron Technology's fiscal fourth quarter showed a memory maker whose growth now comes mainly from price rather than volume, with customers committing cash years in advance to secure...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Samsung Foundry gets boost from HBM4 as 2nm push continues
Samsung Electronics' HBM4 ramp is giving its foundry business a timely boost, as rising demand for the memory product translates into more work for the company's 4nm logic lines.
Wednesday 30 September 2026
'I tell myself every day it'll ease': Phison CEO sees years of memory shortage
Phison Electronics CEO Pua Khein-Seng says he tells himself every day that the memory shortage will ease tomorrow. In reality, he says, AI-driven demand has opened a gap between memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
SK Hynix resumes DDR4, DDR5 packaging orders with Winpac
SK Hynix has resumed outsourcing DRAM packaging to South Korean outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider Winpac, reviving a supplier relationship that ended in 2023...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Column: Memory and logic collide as AI shifts the balance
As HBM approaches half the cost of a GPU-HBM CoWoS package, can memory still be viewed as merely a passive component of AI computing? The answer goes back to the "memory wall," a challenge...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: What risks does China's DRAM capacity face amid tightening market?
China's continued expansion of DRAM capacity has raised a key question for the global memory market: will supply and demand flip?
Wednesday 30 September 2026
CXMT's US$5.2 billion buildout deepens China's push for domestic DRAM equipment
China's largest dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating a CNY34.9 billion (US$5.2 billion) expansion aimed at chipmaking equipment,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
CXMT expansion meets surging GigaDevice DRAM demand, sharpening China's memory supply-chain buildout
CXMT's continued DRAM capacity expansion is coinciding with stronger demand from China's domestic memory sector.
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Inside China's 3D DRAM push: from lab to fab, and the road ahead
China's push into 3D DRAM is moving from early-stage research into wafer processes and equipment, with efforts spanning the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
CXMT to spend US$5.2 billion on R&D and testing as DRAM supply stays tight
China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to invest CNY34.9 billion (approx. US$5.2 billion) in technology R&D and additional back-end DRAM testing capacity, stepping up...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung reshuffles DRAM roadmap, prioritizing B1b hybrid bonding for D0a, HBM5
Samsung Electronics is reshaping its next-generation dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) roadmap, elevating its B1b wafer-to-wafer (W2W) hybrid bonding technology from a project-specific...