Silicon Motion Technology will not change its trade mark or operating strategy after being acquired by US-based broadband communication chips supplier MaxLinear, as both companies...
DRAM and NAND flash spot prices are expected to continue trending downward in the second quarter of 2022, prompting channel distributors to be conservative and to offload their inventories...
Kioxia and Western Digital have finalized a formal agreement to jointly invest in the first phase of the Fab7 (Y7) manufacturing facility at Kioxia's Yokkaichi plant in Japan's Mie...
Powertech Technology (PTI) has obtained orders for packaging MediaTek's smartphone application processors slated for launch later in 2022, under the chipmaker's strategy to diversify...
Kioxia has started sampling its new UFS Ver. 3.1 embedded flash memory devices for automotive, according to the company. The new lineup utilizes Kioxia's cutting-edge BiCS FLASH 3D...
China's Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has recently cleared Apple's validation for its 128-layer 3D NAND flash memory, with shipments slated to kick off in small volumes in May...
This Asia tech industry summary will mainly focus on Kioxia and Western Digital (WD) planning to invest JPY 1 trillion (US$8.19 billion) to build a new NAND flash factory in Japan,...
Kioxia has announced it will begin construction of a new fabrication facility (Fab2) at its Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan for the possible expansion of production of its...
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Japan on March 16, prompting some companies, such as Kioxia, to halt production. The memory chip vendor has suspended part of its production...
IC Insights has forecast that NAND flash memory capital spending will rise 8% to US$29.9 billion in 2022, surpassing the previous all-time high of US$27.8 billion spent in 2018.
Memory backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) may see its revenue hit by a cutback in orders from Kioxia in the first half of 2022, but is still on track to post an at least...
Despite the ongoing shortage of non-memory chips and components, which is unlikely to improve as a whole until 2023, memory chip vendor Micron Technology remains optimistic about...
DRAM contract prices are expected to stop falling and begin to rise in the second quarter of 2022, and NAND flash prices will be rising too, according to sources at memory module...
NAND flash vendors' cautious attitudes towards capacity expansion and a substantial cutback in output at Kioxia-Western Digital JV fabs in Japan will flip the market into undersupply...
Micron Technology and Western Digital have raised their NAND flash prices by about 10%, which is about to trigger increases in both spot and contract market prices, according to industry...
