Samsung is expected to have the largest capex budget of any IC supplier again in 2018, according to IC Insights. After spending US$24.2 billion for semiconductor capex in 2017, Samsung...

The world's top-3 memory IC vendors - Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology - saw their combined DRAM and flash memory revenues climb to a record high of US$37.3 billion...

Prices for low-capacity NAND flash devices have started bouncing back recently though the memory contract prices will continue their downward trend in the next couple of quarters,...

Revenues of the global NAND flash industry increased 4.4% sequentially to US$17 billion in the third quarter of 2018, when the memory prices fell 10-15% on average, according to DR...

Tsinghua Unigroup has signed a strategic alliance with memory module firm Shenzhen Longsys Electronics in a move to accelerate its ambition in the NAND flash sector.

China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) has started delivering samples of its 64-layer 3D NAND chip with volume production likely to kick off in the third quarter of 2019, according...

The world's top-15 semiconductor companies are forecast to see their combined sales climb 18% in 2018, according to IC Insights, which estimated the overall semiconductor industry...

DRAM and NAND flash memory prices will continue their downward trend for at least another year, according to Peter Shu, chairman for memory module firm Transcend Information. The...

With demand growth failing to catch up with that of supply, NAND flash contract prices are set to register a double-digit sequential decline in the fourth quarter of 2018, according...

NAND flash solution provider Phison Electronics during a recent forum hosted by Advantech in Suzhou, China, announced its latest high-speed SSD storage controller chips will support...

SK Hynix has launched what the company claims is the world's first 96-layer 512Gb CTF (charge trap flash)-based 4D NAND flash based on its TLC (triple-level cell) arrays, using 3D...

Taiwan-based Silicon Motion Technology, dedicated to supplying NAND flash controllers for SSDs and other solid state storage devices, expects its 2018 revenues from SSD controllers...

Micron Technology will focus on technology transitions during fiscal year 2019, with the company's DRAM fabs in Taiwan set to transition to more-advanced 1y/1znm process technologies,...

Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation has launched two additional members of its next-generation B6700 family of burn-in memory testers. The new B6700L...

Cypress Semiconductor announced recently the company has entered into a joint venture with SK hynix system ic, a foundry spin-off of SK Hynix.

SK Hynix has reported net profits of KRW4.69 trillion (US$4.12 billion) on consolidated revenues of KRW11.42 trillion for the third quarter of 2018. Both hit record-high levels.

Macronix International saw its gross margin decline 10pp sequentially to 35% in the third quarter due mainly to an unfavorable product mix.

NAND flash prices have declined by 50% so far this year due mainly to capacity expansions among major suppliers worldwide, and the prices are expected to drop further in 2019, when...

Memory and logic IC backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) expects to post a low single-digit sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenues, due mainly to a slowdown in memory...

China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has already begun to implement its new fab projects in Nanjing and Chengdu as part of its memory business expansion. The new manufacturing sites...

The ASP for DRAM memory is set to start falling in the fourth quarter and continue its downward trend in 2019, while that for NAND flash chips will also decrease. ASPs for both memory...

ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), saw its September revenues increase...

Chipmakers are encountering low manufacturing yield rates of 3D 4bits/cell (QLC) NAND chips, and substandard chips due to the poor QLC NAND yields may cause disruption to the market...

DRAM contract prices are forecast to fall 5% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to DRAMeXchange, which estimated previously a smaller 1-3% drop. Demand growth has...

Major NAND flash chip vendors have had over 60% of their production capacities utilize 64/72-layer 3D NAND process technology, helping 3D NAND become a mainstream technology, according...