Articles tagged with: Dram and Hynix Semiconductor

Irony Abounds in DRAM Market as Bankruptcy-Bound Elpida Ovetakes Micron

­In one of the more ironic developments ever to transpire in the dynamic random access memory (dram) market, now bankrupt Elpida Memory in the first quarter managed to outperform the overall industry and its close competitors, allowing it to rise one position to take the third rank among global suppliers. But if that weren't incongruous enough, the company that Elpida displaced from the third rank was Micron Technology -- the supplier most likely to acquire Elpida.  more

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Fitch: S. Korean DRAM Makers to Benefit from Elpida's Fall

­Fitch Ratings says it expects Korean dynamic random access memory (dram) makers, Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, to strengthen market leading positions as Japan's Elpida Memory filed for bankruptcy protection.  more

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Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined $29 Billion in 2009

The semiconductor industry will post a revenue decline for just the sixth time in the last 25 years, with worldwide revenue totaling $226 billion in 2009, an 11.4 percent decline from 2008, according to preliminary estimates by Gartner.  more

Related Tags: intel, samsung, toshiba, texas instruments, stmicroelectronics, qualcomm, renesas-technology, amd, infineon-technologies, mediatek, qimonda, cell-phone

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A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers

For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenue to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results for the overall semiconductor industry, according to preliminary market-share figures from iSuppli.  more

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Day One, Numonyx Emerges as Number One in Mobile Memory

A new number-one supplier of memory chips for mobile handsets was born today with the announcement of Numonyx, but can this semiconductor spin-off find success in a business where no one has posted a profit in three years?  more

Related Tags: semiconductor, flash-memory, isuppli, stmicroelectronics, memory-chips, spansion, memory, hynix, foundry, nand, numonyx, flash, option

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Global Semiconductor Market Suffers Bad Memories of 2007

Surprising weakness in the memory chip market in the fourth quarter took the wind out of the sails of the global semiconductor market, causing growth in 2007 to fall short of expectations, according to iSuppli. Global semiconductor market revenue grew by only 3.3 percent in 2007, based on the results from iSuppli's final 2007 chip market share data.  more

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Hynix Develops 1Gbit Memory for Mobile Phones

It operates at a maximum clock speed of 200MHz resulting in a throughput of up to 1.6 Gbytes of data per second with a 32-bit I/O â€" the fastest in the industry. The product consumes very low power, under worst case conditions, extending battery life in a wide range of portable electronic devices. more

Related Tags: battery, hynix, nand

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iSuppli Raises 2006 Chip Estimate

After years of coming close to breaking into the top-10 global semiconductor rankings, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Hynix Semiconductor finally hit the big time in 2006, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppli Corp. In the telecoms world, Qualcomm maintained its ranking while Broadcom managed to jump a couple of places.

Preliminary Ranking of the World's Top-25 Semiconductor Suppliers in 2006 (Ranking by Revenue in Millions of U.S. Dollars)