1013 news items tagged NAND flash
Phison expects to post over 10% revenue growth in 2Q18
Friday 20 April 2018Phison Electronics has enjoyed a pull-in of short lead-time orders for NAND flash products, and is optimistic that demand will continue to improve later in the second quarter, according...
Semiconductors used in electronics post solid growth in 1Q18, says IHS
Thursday 19 April 2018Global semiconductor revenues derived from chip usage in electronic equipment and devices amounted to US$111.4 billion at the end of first-quarter 2018, up a significant 17% from...
Yangtze Memory obtains first 3D NAND chip orders
Monday 16 April 2018Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) under China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has obtained its first orders for commercial production of over 10,000 3D NAND flash chips for use in...
Semiconductor leaders continue to gain market share
Friday 13 April 2018The world's leading semiconductor suppliers have significantly increased their combined market share over the past decade. According to IC Insights, the top-5 semiconductor suppliers...
NAND flash prices continue to fall
Friday 13 April 2018The global supply of NAND flash chips remains slightly short of demand which will continue to drag down the memory prices during the second quarter of 2018, according to DRAMeXchan...
Global NAND flash output to expand substantially in 2019
Wednesday 11 April 2018Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Micron Technology and SK Hynix all plan to expand their NAND flash production capacities which will boost the overall output worldwide in 2019, according...
Innodisk to ramp up production capacity 50%
Wednesday 11 April 2018Taiwan-based Innodisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products, will soon begin to operate a new plant which will increase its overall production capacity...
Nanya March revenues hit 11-year high
Wednesday 11 April 2018Taiwan-based DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$6.72 billion (US$230.1 million) for March 2018, up 60.3% on year and 13.4% sequentially.
PTI posts record March revenues
Tuesday 10 April 2018Memory-IC backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.65 billion (US$193.5 million) for March 2018, up 16% sequentially and 32.4% on...
Micron to expand NAND flash site in Singapore
Tuesday 10 April 2018Micron Technology is adding a new facility to its existing 12-inch wafer plant for the manufacture of NAND flash memory in Singapore. The new facility is expected to come online by...
Tsinghua Unigroup reportedly to source 3D NAND chips from Intel
Tuesday 3 April 2018Tsinghua Unigroup has struck deals with Intel to source 3D NAND flash chips from the US firm in 2018 and 2019, while having subsidiary Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) continue...
Toshiba expects to close sale of memory-chip unit in April
Monday 2 April 2018Toshiba has disclosed the completion of its planned sale of Toshiba Memory will be delayed to "April 2018 or thereafter," as "certain conditions relating to required...
Sale of Toshiba Memory remains uncertain
Tuesday 27 March 2018A bright prospect for NAND flash market growth has created uncertainty about whether Toshiba can complete the sale of its memory-chip unit.
Adata posts EPS of NT$8.59 for 2017
Monday 26 March 2018Adata Technology's board of directors has decided to distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$6 (US$0.21) for 2017, when the memory module maker generated earnings per share of...
Galaxy S9+ materials cost US$43 more than previous versions, says IHS Markit
Friday 23 March 2018The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...
OSE lands backend orders for USB PD chips
Friday 23 March 2018Memory backend specialist Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) has obtained new orders for USB PD (power delivery) chips from Weltrend Semiconductor, according to industry source...
Phison posts record profit for 2017
Monday 19 March 2018NAND flash device controller IC supplier Phison Electronics has reported net profits of NT$5.82 billion (US$199.2 million) for 2017 hitting a record high. EPS for the year reached...
3S expects revenues and gross margin to fall in 1Q18
Friday 16 March 2018Solid State System (3S) expects to post sequential decreases in revenues and gross margin for the first quarter of 2018, due to a seasonal slowdown in orders for NAND flash device...
IC Insights raises 2018 chip market growth forecast
Friday 16 March 2018IC Insights has raised its IC market growth forecast for 2018 to 15% from 8% estimated previously. The revision was made due to higher-than-expected output value of the DRAM segmen...
Power outage reportedly disrupts Samsung NAND flash production
Wednesday 14 March 2018A brief power outage took place at Samsung Electronics' NAND flash plant in Pyeongtaek on March 9, Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) has reported, citing market...
Falling prices to accelerate SSD adoption in notebooks
Tuesday 13 March 2018SSD suppliers have recently cut prices to promote their 64- and 72-layer 3D devices, which is expected to accelerate the adoption of SSDs in notebooks, according to DRAMeXchange.
Silicon wafer prices to rise over 30%, says Macronix chairman
Friday 9 March 2018Prices for upstream wafers will rise more than 30% in 2018, according to Miin Wu, chairman for Taiwan-based Macronix International, a supplier of flash memory and mask ROM chips.
Apacer striving for gross margin improvement
Thursday 8 March 2018Memory module maker Apacer Technology will be striving for gross margin improvement in 2018 by growing revenues generated from the industrial control and server sectors, according...
DRAM prices may rise 5-10% on datacenter demand in 1H18
Wednesday 7 March 2018Bolstered by robust demand from datacenter and smartphone sectors, the global production value of the DRAM industry is estimated to surge over 30% to US$96 billion in 2018, and price...
Intel, TSMC vying to recruit engineering talent in Taiwan
Monday 5 March 2018Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are in a race for seeking new engineering talent in Taiwan, with the former aiming to support the capacity expansion at...
- Samsung to break ground for second memory line in Xian, China (Mar 27) - Pulse
- Micron stock falls after earnings, but analysts are cheerier than ever (Mar 23) - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
- Micron unruffled by rise of Chinese chipmakers (Mar 18) - Nikkei Asian Review
- Samsung to expand Xian-based NAND flash line (Mar 13) - Yonhap News
- Intel looks to furnish flash memory to Chinese storage provide (Mar 2) - Nikkei Asian Review
- Toshiba considering IPO for memory chip unit (Jann 22) - Reuters UK
- Gartner says worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast to grow 7.5% in 2018 (Jan 15) - Gartner
- SK Hynix set to invest in Toshiba chip unit, details consortium's plans (Sep 27) - Reuters
- Toshiba says the $18 billion chip sale is delayed because of Apple (Sep 25) - Fortune
- Toshiba selects Bain group as buyer of its memory chip business: sources (Sep 20) - Reuters