DRAM Market

Source: www.pcworld.com --- 25 days ago
Analysis: Some DRAM makers cut production last week trying to spur a price recovery, but the action is too little, too late. ...

Source: www.digitimes.com --- 8 days ago
DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) plans to expand its sales of branded finished memory chips to PC OEM makers on a contract basis, instead of its previous strategy to focus mainly on the spot Market, according to industry watchers. ...

Source: www.purchasing.com --- 16 days ago
High inventory levels and weak demand mean DRAM prices are dropping in China ...

Source: www.isuppli.com --- 8 days ago
DRAM Market Recovery Stalls in Second Half of 2008 ...

Source: www.isuppli.com --- 29 days ago
iSuppli Corporation ...

Source: www.gartner.com --- 38 days ago
These DRAM statistics for density, units, megabytes, average selling price and revenue worldwide from 2003 to 2012, with quarterly detail for 2007 to 2009, reflect a capacity-induced downturn in 2008 and recovery in 2009. ...

Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 31 days ago
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Elpida Memory will cut DRAM production from this month, according to a Japanese media report. The firm, Japan's largest maker of computer-memory chips, said it will reduce output at its Higashi-Hiroshima plant by 10% from midmonth, according to the Nikkei newspaper, which cited comments by company president Yukio Sakamoto Tuesday. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news. ...

Source: www.theregister.co.uk --- 28 days ago
Supply and demand coming back into balance...ish DRAM manufacturer Elpida hopes the DRAM Market will be healthier next year when a severe two year slump ends.… ...

Source: www.eweek.com --- 4 days ago
DRAM storage chip suppliers Samsung, Elpida Memory and Powerchip Semiconductor face tougher challenges in servicing debts and financing capital expenditure as banks become more cash-strapped under the Wall Street financial crisis and global credit crunch, according to iSuppli. iSuppli cut its near-term Market rating on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) storage chips used mainly in personal computers to negative from neutral. DRAM storage chip maker Samsung Electronics is the only chip maker not suffering losses. - SEOUL (Reuters) - DRAM suppliers face tougher challenges in servicing debts and financing capital expenditure as banks become more cash-strapped under the global credit crunch, research firm iSuppli said. quot;Even with the expected intervention by the U.S. government, this crisis means the co... ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 23 days ago
NEWBURYPORT, MA (Market WIRE) Solid Access Technologies, a leading provider of I/O acceleration appliances, today announced the sale of its Universal Solid State Disk storage device to SAMSUNG Securities Co., Ltd, a full-service investment bank with a focus on wealth management and investment banking. Solid Access earned SAMSUNG Securities' business after an exhaustive six-month evaluation in competition with other DRAM-based solid state disk vendors and an incumbent Tier 1 RAID supplier. Additionally, Solid Access will be exhibiting the USSD 200 at 2008 High Performance on Wall Street, Monday, September 22nd, Booth 225. ...

Source: www.informationweek.com --- 10 days ago
The next-generation memory style is expected to increase from 29% of the DRAM Market in terms of units sold to 72% by 2011, according to IDC. ...

Source: www.infoworld.com --- 18 days ago
The contract price of mainstream DRAM chips has plunged nearly 18 percent in two weeks to reach new record lows, an online clearinghouse for the chips reported Monday. DRAM contracts for the second half of September, which are negotiated between chip vendors and PC vendors and make up about three-quarters of the DRAM Market, fell to just $1.44 per chip, according to DRAMeXchange , from $1.75 per chip in contracts for the first half of September. [ Stay ahead of advances in hardware technology with InfoWorld's Ahead of the Curve blog and newsletter . ] Prices of mainstream chips, 1GB DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) DRAM chips that run at 667MHz, have been in the doldrums for over a year. DRAM makers built too many factories to compete against each other and on hopes people would take to Microsoft Windows Vista, which requires more DRAM than Windows XP, much faster than they have. The result has been a chip glut. A DRAM glut is great news for users because PC vendors often add more DRAM to machines or offer it free as an incentive. People who want to upgrade the DRAM in their PC can also find better prices than normal during DRAM gluts. But this DRAM glut has been bad for suppliers. Current chip prices are below the cost of production for many vendors. In the last round of earnings conference calls, most DRAM makers reported steep losses. Only Samsung Electronics remained profitable. The Market situation has been so bad t ...

Source: searchstoragechannel.techtarget.com --- 28 days ago
The solid-state disk Market isn't new, but there is a whole new group of entrants to it, with a new approach. Find out which makes the most sense for customers -- flash-based solid-state disk or DRAM-based solid-state disk -- and what the key supplier concerns are. ...

Source: seekingalpha.com --- 8 days ago
H.J. Huney submits: It's difficult to imagine that the memory Market can stay in its present condition much longer, particularly after the blood baths (i.e. the negative earnings) that have been decimating the industry recently. Competitors in the DRAM and NAND flash markets have been engaged in what amounts to a war of attrition; a stalemate of sorts that will simply last until a few companies run out of resources. With the economy in a slump, it appears that the markets for memory will only weaken more over the next few quarters or longer, exacerbating things even further for companies barely holding on right now. Yet this grim outlook is precisely the reason to keep an eye on Micron (MU). It's not that Micron looks to be on the verge of returning to profitability. Rather, it's that at least one of its competitors looks to be on the verge of succumbing. Qimonda's (QI) Balance Sheet and Cash Flows have looked extremely shaky to me for quite a while, particularly in comparison with a competitor like Micron that looks to be in much better shape to survive the storm. Complete Story » ...

Source: www.tgdaily.com --- 1 day ago
With catastrophic messages hitting the financial world each day now, the battered DRAM industry has become a negligible topic even in IT lately. And while DRAM manufacturers are dealing with one of most severe Market environments in their history, there is always something positive for someone else – in this case the consumer: Nam Kim from iSuppli told TG Daily that DRAM prices may be about as low as they can get and if you are in need of some extra memory for your PC... ...

Source: www.legitreviews.com --- 9 days ago
DRAM makers such as PSC, Elpida, and Hynix have separately announced production cutbacks on September 8th , 9th , and 18th. If the cutbacks proceed as scheduled, we expect to see a reduction in worldwide DRAM production by 5 to 6% around end of October to November. Spot Market was encouraged - rose from 1.32 USD on September 8th to 1.4 USD on September 10th for an increase of 6% - initially when the first cutback was announced. However, the rebound was short-lived; by September 11th, price on spot Market began to fall again. After the last announcement of cutback from Hynix, spot price failed to continue the rise with average price increasing slightly by 0.01 USD then weakened by the continued slow demand. ...

Source: www.legitreviews.com --- 25 days ago
Following the announcement of DRAM production cuts by Elpida Memory and Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) last week, Micron Technology also reportedly plans to slash its capital expenditure (capex) for 2009 to help stabilize the sagging DRAM Market, industrial observers in Taiwan quoted sources at international institutional investors as saying. According to the latest data from the institutional investors, Micron is expected to cut its capex for 2009 to US$750-1,500 million compared to US$1.5-2 billion as originally planned, said the industrial watchers. With regard to NAND flash, the industry observers also pointed out that Toshiba seemed to have reduced its shipments of NAND flash for this month, probably due to an increase in contract volumes received from clients as well as a delay in migration to a new process. ...

Source: www.techworld.com --- 16 days ago
Spansion claims new technology reduces power consumption. Spansion, which was spun off from AMD and Fujitsu in 1993 to embed flash memory in cell phones, automobiles and consumer electronics, is focusing on the IT Market for the first time with a product called EcoRAM. While flash memory is starting to replace some hard disks for general storage needs, Spansion executives claim that their innovation is to use flash instead of DRAM on the... ...

Source: www.pcadvisor.co.uk --- 25 days ago
DRAM production cuts fail to rescue Market A few DRAM makers cut production last week, hoping that reducing supply might spur a price recovery, but the action is too little, too late, analysts say. ...

Source: www.techworld.com --- 25 days ago
But Market still stutters. DRAM makers have cut production in the hope that reducing supply might spur a price recovery, but the action is too little, too late, analysts say. ...