Micron to buy Elpida
Micron has won the right to negotiate exclusively to buy Elpida after offering $2.5 billion for the bankrupt Japanese chipmaker. Elpida has been searching for an investor to sponsor its restructuring...
View ArticleMemory makers facing mixed results
Beancounters working for Paragon have been looking at the fine print in corporate results and come to the conclusion that things are not going that well. The report said that memory chip makers with a...
View ArticleSamsung slumps as Apple props up Elpida
After failing to do any serious harm to its old chum Samsung in the court room, Apple has done more damage by walking away and propping up Elpida. Shares in Samsung slumped more than six percent...
View ArticleUCL makes ultra-fast ReRAM chip breakthrough
Scientists have made steps towards ultra-fast ReRAM chips that could soon be used in memory devices, as well as potentially finding applications in CPUs. Researchers at University College London claim...
View ArticleMicron buys Elpida for $750 million
Micron has written a cheque for the Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory for about $750 million in cash. According to the Wall Street Journal, while Elpida has been losing money faster than a tech hack in...
View ArticleSamsung improves DRAM
Samsung has developed a DRAM chip which is much faster and more efficient. According to the China Post, Samsung has developed the industry's first 30 nanometer-class Double Data Rate 4 DRAM module. The...
View ArticleDying Elpida caught up in shareholder inferno
Shareholders are fighting to keep Micron from getting its paws on the failed chipmaker Elpida. According to Reuters, the group has raised $383 million to give Elpida a loan to help it restructure. If...
View ArticleGloFo now second biggest foundry business
GlobalFoundries has overtaken United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) as the second biggest contract chip maker for the second quarter of 2012, reports IC Insights.GloFo managed increase sales by 18...
View ArticleApple cuts memory orders with Samsung
Apple has cut the numbers of memory chips that it has ordered through Samsung. South Korea's Samsung is a core Apple supplier, producing microprocessors, flat screens and memory chips and DRAMs and...
View ArticleAMD boasts of big data SeaMicro SM15000
AMD has announced the SeaMicro SM15000 server - and it claims it's the first to optimise the micro server for big data. The SM15000 uses Freedom Fabric Storage, which connects directly to huge disk...
View ArticleRambus is in hot water
It looks like chipmaker turned patent troll Rambus is in hot water with the courts. A US Judge has ruled that the company destroyed records that could have been evidence in its patent dispute with...
View ArticleWorldwide wafer fab equipment spend drops in 2012
Sales of wafer fab equipment (WFE) spending dropped. According to Gartner, the industry is on pace to total $31.4 billion in revenues this year, a decline of 13.3 percent from 2011 spending of $36.2...
View ArticleSamsung posts record profit
Samsung posted a fourth straight record quarterly profit, of $7.4 billion, earning around a fifth of South Korea's GDP. The company had strong sales of its Galaxy range of phones even though sales of...
View ArticleBig Blue spills beans on 22nm
IBM suits have adjusted their ties and released a chip which they think proves they can get funky with all these young low powered whipper snappers. Details of the 22-nanometer chip were shown off at...
View ArticleSemiconductor revenues decline in 2012
Worldwide semiconductor revenue has declined from this time last year, according to preliminary results from Gartner. According to Gartner, revenue was$298 billion in 2012, compared to $307 billion in...
View ArticleSSD prices continue to fall
The prices for SSD drives have continued to fall and are now a third of what they were in 2010. According to iSuppli, in 2010 a gigabyte of SSD would set you back $3 and now you can pick up the same...
View ArticleKorean chipmakers dominate DRAM market
Korean DRAM manufacturers have a virtual stranglehold on the industry and as of Q4 2012 they control 80 percent of the market. DRAM sales have recovered thanks to strong demand for smartphones, growing...
View Article3D IC market to see stable growth through 2016
The global 3D integrated circuit market is forecast to grow by 19.7 percent between 2012 and 2016, with the major growth driver being strong demand for memory products, particularly flash memory and...
View ArticleMicron reports net loss for Q2 2013
Micron Technology landed itself in the red for the second quarter, posting a net loss. The company, which makes DRAM and NAND flash memory, chips that provide the storage in mobile devices such as...
View ArticleQuarter of wafer capacity dedicated to sub 40nm processes
As chipmakers struggle to go beyond 22nm and 28nm, it seems older processes are dying faster than Gangnam Style. A recent report by IC Insights shows that more than a quarter of installed wafer...
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