The American manufacturer Micron has acquired Japan's Elpida for around $2.5bn, thus climbing the ranks of the largest memory chip makers in the world. More...

HP plans to launch its alternatives for normal flash storage as well as solid state drives within 18 months, according to statements made by Stan Williams, Senior Fellow at HP. More...

Apple has plans to phase production of the NAND and DRAM that Samsung current supplies them with for the iPhone and iPad. More...

Micron Technology has announced production sampling of its new 1Gb DDR2 device fabricated on 68nm DRAM process technology. The new process, coupled with Micron's 6F2 technology, has enabled the world's smallest production 1Gb DDR2 memory... More...

Persistent weak DRAM pricing has prompted more DRAM makers to offer their chips in effectively tested (eTT) form, meaning reducing demand and weakening sales at testing houses. Following Elpida Memory's increase in its eTT sales... More...

Thanks to XREX for submitting this to our front page. Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed the first all-DRAM stacked memory package using 'through silicon via' technology, which will soon result in memory... More...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Nvidia Corporation have announced that TSMC has successfully produced a fully-functional sample of a graphics chip for handheld devices with embedded DRAM. "Nvidia is pleased to have collaborated with... More...

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 1Gigabit DDR2 DRAM using 60 nanometer process technology. In its press release, Samsung estimates efficiency gains of the 60nm process are 40%... More...

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 1Gb DDR2 DRAM using 60nm–class process technology. Use of the new process technology is a significant milestone in that it increases production... More...

Throughout 2006, Samsung was under heavy investigation and has recently agreed to pay $90 million USD for participating in illegal DRAM price-fixing practices. The fine is will be divided into: $80 million to be returned... More...

A Korean executive at Samsung Electronics has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time in the United States in connection with a global price-fixing conspiracy, according to the government. Young Hwan Park, president of... More...

SAMSUNG says it has developed a prototype 'fusion' memory chip that can significantly increase the data processing speed between processors in mobile applications. Dubbed OneDRAM, the chip is will find its way into mobile phone... More...

Some of Taiwan's DRAM makers have reported record monthly sales for August, highlighting an increase in DRAM prices that could continue in the months ahead. The higher prices are unlikely to affect PC prices thanks... More...

After a much longer than expected delay, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) has finally taken over as the most popular memory chip used in PCs. The crossover to DDR2 from the previous mainstream chip,... More...

Hynix Semiconductor announced the availability of its512Mbit GDDR4 DRAM for graphics applications on December 2. Hynix willsoon begin to sample its GDDR4 products to leading graphic chipsetsuppliers and the company plans to start mass production... More...

Kingmax Semiconductor, ranked as the world's eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, is hoping to increase the proportion of DDR2 products in its unit shipments to, at least, 20% by... More...

Four executives at German memory vendor Infineon Technologies AG and its U.S. subsidiary have pled guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The sales... More...

Computer memory chip maker Micron said on Wednesday it had indications that demand for DRAM memory chips, used mainly in personal computers, would be robust enough to soak up rising supply in 2005. ... More...

Low prices spurred demand for DDR chips in last week's spot market while prices for low-density SDRAM continued rallying amid chip shortages, said DRAMeXchange. Demand for DDR regains strength after Christmas holidays. DDR chip sales... More...

Toshiba Corp. began producing sample memory chips based on Rambus Inc.'s next-generation XDR (extreme data rate) memory technology on Thursday, the Japanese company said the same day. XDR, which was formerly known by... More...

THE RECOVERY IN prices of DRAM was seasonally driven and has run out of steam, according to an analyst at iSuppli. Nam Hyung Kim claimed in a note to customers today that contract prices in... More...

Realizing the increasingly important role to be played by DDR2 memory, DRAM makers plan to quicken the pace of capital investment for production of the new generation of double data rate chips. Mainly driven by... More...

WHILE PRICES OF double data rate (DDR) memory rose last week it was a "false dawn" and memory prices started to drop again soon after, according to an analyst at market watcher iSuppli. Senior analyst... More...

In a move that could bring production of memory chips to a halt at one of Taiwan's largest memory makers and bring about a shortage of PC memory chips, German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG... More...

Samsung and its insurers are offering a £100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the people, or person, behind the $4.5m Heathrow computer chip theft in October Here are some... More...

Micron Technology Inc on Friday charged that Korean memory manufacturers have received unfair levels of support from their government and asked US authorities to impose tariffs on memory imports from the country. ... More...

Thieves stole £4.5m worth of computer memory from a warehouse near Heathrow, just hours after it arrived from Korea. Police are calling on computer dealers to watch out for cheap memory chips.... More...

DRAM makers are bearing down on the graphics market and expect in the first half of next year to launch a GDDR-III memory chip designed from the ground up for high-performance graphics applications. ... More...

SCHWALBACH, Germany - Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. has introduced a 128-Mbit synchronous DRAM intended for graphics and networking applications based on the double data rate (DDR II) interface. The chip is capable of a data... More...

Korean cheabol Samsung intends to launch a countersuit against Toshiba after the latter accused it of engaging in unfair trade practices. According to Asiabiztech, quoting Korean press, Toshiba – presumably Toshiba US -... More...

This is usually a time - before and during Chinese New Year - when DRAM prices fall. Not this year. Samsung and Hynix are said to be "entering negotiations with their major... More...

Rambus, the pugnacious owner of all sorts of fast memory patents, many obtained legitimately, has turned in a profit for the December quarter, its Q3. So it was down - $6.2m, compared... More...

US memory company Micron, currently in the deepest of negotiations with Korean Dramurai Hynix, is waiting to see what happens before hiking the price of its own memory modules. That follows a decision by Hynix,... More...

NEC and Hitachi are mulling over the dissolution of their memory manufacturing joint venture and fleeing the DRAM business entirely, according to investors cited by Bloomsberg. NEC and Hitachi are fifth and... More...

Market researcher Gartner Dataquest said on Thursday the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips was likely to shrink an additional 19 percent in 2002 after a massive 67 percent contraction this year.... More...