Samsung Electronics continued to retain its lead in the global DRAM market and managed to boost its share in the third quarter of 2010, according to DRAMeXchange. On the contrary,...
Elpida Memory has estimated its operating profits for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 at 23.1 billion yen (US$287 million), down almost 48% from the 44.4 billion yen posted in...
Elpida Memory has plotted a three-year plan to raise its competitiveness in the global DRAM market and counter the threat from Samsung Electronics, according to industry sources in...
ProMOS Technologies plans to raise up to US$50 million from the sale of securities directly to a limited number of investors at the end of 2010, and also issue up to 700 million new...
Elpida Memory has completed development of a 30nm-class 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM for PCs and consumer electronics products, with sample shipments slated for December 2010. Mass production is...
Elpida Memory reportedly plans to invest about NT$3 billion (US$95.5 million) to set up an R&D center in Taiwan, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times repor...
The cost of manufacturing DRAM in the second quarter of 2010 saw a rise for the first time since the third quarter of 2006, raising concerns about production expenses in the memory...
Elpida Memory and Spansion have jointly developed 1.8V, 4Gb single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips, according to Elpida. This NAND memory, based on Spansion's MirrorBit charge-trapping...
Samsung Electronics' aggressive investment in advanced manufacturing technology paid off in spades in the second quarter of 2010, allowing the company to outproduce competitors and...
Rexchip Electronics on August 12 announced it has successfully completed pilot runs of Elpida Memory's 40nm 2Gb DDR3 product. Pilot run results for Elpida's 40nm process have met...
Rexchip Electronics has posted net profits of NT$9.09 billion (US$284.06 million), or an EPS of NT$3.09, for the first half of 2010, making it the most profitable among Taiwan's DRAM...
Powertech Technology (PTI), a major Taiwan-based memory packaging and testing house, has announced net profits for the second quarter of 2010 increased 90.8% on year and 12% sequentially...
Elpida has reported net profits of 30.7 billion yen (US$352 million) for the first quarter of its fiscal 2010, compared with a 44.4 billion yen loss a year earlier. This also marked...
Elpida Memory has developed a 2Gb DDR2 mobile RAM for smartphones and tablet PCs, according to the company. The new DDR2 is manufactured using a 40nm process at Elpida's Hiroshima...
Global DRAM supply will outgrow demand by about 3% in the last quarter of 2010 as major chipmakers ramp up their capacity using more advanced processes, according to Digitimes Rese...
