103 news items tagged Western Digital
Kioxia to build new fab for 3D flash manufacturing
Thursday 29 October 2020Kioxia has announced it will begin to construct a fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan to expand production of its proprietary 3D flash memory...
Wistron to acquire WD plant in Malaysia
Tuesday 20 October 2020Wistron has announced it will spend US$28.74 million to acquire a plant from Western Digital (WD) in Malaysia via its subsidiary Wistron Technology (Malaysia).
Demand for QLC NAND memory set to boom
Tuesday 14 July 2020The adoption of QLC (4bits/cell) NAND memory is set to grow rapidly starting the second half of 2020, thanks to rising demand for data-intensive applications demanding large-capacity,...
TSMC 5nm fab in US could reshape global chipmaking supply chain, says Digitimes Research
Monday 18 May 2020A TSMC wafer fab designed for advanced 5nm process manufacturing in the US could drive changes to many semiconductor players within the supply chain, according to Digitimes Researc...
Western Digital raising enterprise HDD prices
Monday 27 April 2020Western Digital reportedly is raising its prices for enterprise-use HDDs to reflect increased costs from production and logistics with mainstream products expected to see more than...
Intel reclaims top position in semiconductors
Thursday 16 April 2020Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$419.1 billion in 2019, down 12% from 2018, according to final results by Gartner. Intel regained the top position in the market as the downturn...
Kioxia strives to return to profitability
Monday 2 March 2020Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is reportedly looking to go public by October 2020, and therefore is striving to swing back to profit, according to industry sources.
Top-5 semiconductor firms hold 53% of global wafer capacity
Thursday 13 February 2020The world's top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month, with their combined capacity representing 53% of the world's total wafer...
Worldwide semiconductor revenue drops 11.9% in 2019, says Gartner
Thursday 16 January 2020Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, according to Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the...
HDD demand from datacenter players to rise in 4Q19 and 1Q20
Tuesday 17 September 2019China- and US-based datacenter players are expected to replenish their HDD inventory beginning from fourth-quarter 2019 to first-quarter 2020, as demand for datacenter establishments...
Quanta mulls setting up production base in Southeast Asia
Monday 24 June 2019Taiwan-based Quanta Computer is assessing the feasibility of setting up new production lines in Southeast Asia, which are most likely to be located in Thailand, where the firm's affiliates...
HDD makers to scale up production in Thailand
Tuesday 18 June 2019Taiwan-based HDD manufacturers Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications and Quanta Storage have both moved to scale up their output in Thailand at the request of their major clients...
Toshiba Memory, Western Digital to jointly invest in new 3D flash memory fab
Tuesday 28 May 2019Toshiba Memory and Western Digital have finalized a formal agreement to jointly invest in the "K1" manufacturing facility that Toshiba Memory is currently constructing in Kitakami...
2018 review and 2019 outlook: Toshiba Memory revving up to boost competitiveness
Monday 21 January 2019Japan-based Toshiba Memory Corp (TMC), now the world's No. 2 supplier of NAND flash memory chips with nearly 20% market share, is striving at full throttles to rival top supplier...
HDD demand for enterprise data centers remains robust, says WD executive
Monday 1 October 2018HDD demand for enterprise data centers continues to be strong, according to Christopher Bergey, executive VP at Western Digital (WD).
Toshiba Memory, Western Digital open new 3D NAND flash fab
Friday 21 September 2018Toshiba Memory and Western Digital have announced jointly the opening of Fab 6 and a new R&D center at Toshiba's Yokkaichi operations in Mie, Japan.
Falling SSD prices to drive greater adoption in notebooks, others
Thursday 13 September 2018NAND flash chip prices have fallen to the levels of two years ago, while SSD prices have hit their sweet spot, according to industry sources. Falling SSD prices are set to drive the...
Superior Plating to swing to profit in 2018
Thursday 23 August 2018Superior Plating Technology, dedicated to metal surface treatment and electroplating processing, is expected to return to profitability in 2018 thanks to new orders placed by Western...
Global 1Q18 NAND flash market posts 3% decrease, says DRAMeXchange
Tuesday 29 May 2018Revenues of the global NAND flash industry dropped 3% sequentially to US$15.74 billion in the first quarter of 2018, when a seasonal slowdown in demand dragged down the memory prices,...
Toshiba Memory to build new fab to expand 3D flash production capacity
Thursday 24 May 2018Toshiba Memory (TMC) announced recently it had decided to start constructing a new fab for BiCS FLASH, the company's proprietary 3D flash memory, in Kitakami (Iwate prefecture, Japan)...
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...
Predictive, warning mechanisms to boost manufacturing efficiency
Monday 19 March 2018While IoT, big data, AI and machine learning technologies are increasingly applied to improve production process and management, predictive and advance warning mechanisms can be integrated...
Samsung, Apple remain top semiconductor customers
Monday 29 January 2018Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5% of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner. Samsung and Apple together...
Western Digital unveils new portfolio of 3D NAND embedded flash drives
Wednesday 6 December 2017Western Digital has introduced a new portfolio of advanced iNAND embedded flash drives (EFDs) to empower smartphone users to unlock the full potential of data-driven applications...
Global 3Q17 NAND flash market posts 14% increase, says DRAMeXchange
Wednesday 22 November 2017Revenues of the global NAND flash industry surged 14.3% sequentially to US$15.12 billion in the third quarter of 2017, according to DRAMeXchange. The price tracker credited the growth...