The memory-chip market conditions will start to improve later in 2019, followed by several years of prosperity, according to Sumit Sadana, executive VP and chief business officer...

Recent concerns over market conditions, coupled with a sharp downturn in average selling prices, will lead the DRAM market to reach just US$77 billion in 2019 - a 22% year-over-year...

With memory demand for automotive set to grow robustly, Micron Technology is gearing up for the market boom by accelerating its deployments of related products and technologies, according...

The world's top-3 memory IC vendors - Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology - saw their combined DRAM and flash memory revenues drop 18% sequentially and 26% from a...

Micron Technology is on track to enter volume production of DRAM memory manufactured using 1ynm process technology later in 2019, according to KC Hsu, chairman for Micron Memory Ta...

China's central government has decided to intervene in the case of Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit accused of stealing trade secrets from US-based Micron Technology, while the Fujian...

The historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in 2015 and 2016 slowed significantly in 2017 and then eased back further in...

The global market for NAND flash memory will remain in oversupply in 2019, as the outlook for end-market demand stays weak, according to DRAMeXchange. NAND flash chipmakers have moved...

DRAM demand for server applications has started showing weakness with related chip prices trending downward, according to market observers. Nevertheless, the outlook for server DRAM...

The huge annual trade deficit of up to US$375 billion is definitely a major reason for the US to raise tariffs on goods imported from China, but the trade war seems to be more of...

Major DRAM chipmakers will slow down their capacity expansion pace in 2019 with lower capex than year-ago levels, judging from end-market demand weakness this year, according to DR...

Fast NAND flash price falls are expected to accelerate the penetration of the memory into various application segments, and may also trigger a wave of reshuffle among suppliers in...

Total fab equipment spending in 2019 is projected to drop 8%, a sharp reversal from the previously forecast increase of 7% as fab investment growth has been revised downward for 2018...

The DRAM market is set to remain the fastest-growing IC product segment in 2018, according to IC Insights. The market is forecast to increase 39% in 2018 following a 77% surge in...

Taiwan-based memory module makers have started landing orders transferred from their fellow China-based firms since September, according to industry sources.

The global DRAM memory industry's output value grew 9% sequentially to a record high of US$28 billion in the third quarter of 2018, according to DRAMeXchange. While bit shipments...

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.

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...

Taiwan-based United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced plans to buy back common shares from the Taiwan stock market for the "interests" of its shareholders.

United Microelectronics (UMC) has maintained that the latest trade secret theft charges brought against it by US authorities are "virtually the same" as the ones that Micron Technology...

China backend service providers such as Tongfu Microelectronics, Tianshui Huatian Technology, Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology have been actively raiding talent from Taiwan's...

With the US banning exports to Jinhua Integrated Circuit, United Microelectronics (UMC) will suspend its R&D assistance to the China-based DRAM firm until further notice, according...

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,...

Micron Technology has announced the opening of a new plant in Taichung, central Taiwan that will be dedicated to providing backend services for the manufacture of DRAM memory.

Micron Technology has announced plans to invest US$3 billion by 2030 to increase memory production at its plant in Manassas, Virginia, creating 1,100 new jobs roughly over the next...