SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. further expanded its dominance in the global DRAM market in the fourth quarter of 2020, a report showed Thursday, with revenue increase. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the NAND flash sector, had a 42.1 percent share of the global DRAM flash market [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Spot market prices for DRAM chips are on a rising course, industry data showed Thursday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the memory market. The spot price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM, a benchmark price for the category, reached as high as US$3.93 as of Wednesday, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — DRAM and NAND flash are expected to be the two semiconductor products that outshine this year, a report showed Saturday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the world’s memory chip market. Sales growth for DRAM and NAND flash were projected to be 18 percent and 17 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it has launched the world’s first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM, as South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker strives to expand its presence with the next-generation memory product. SK hynix’s 16 Gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM, which was developed in 2018 using 1Ynm process technology, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices for server DRAM chips are expected to further decline in the fourth quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, boding ill for South Korean chipmakers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Market researcher TrendForce recently revised its server DRAM prices forecast for the last three months of 2020, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major chipmakers are expected to cut their DRAM capital spending this year, a report showed Thursday, as they become cautious over market conditions amid the pandemic. Samsung Electronics Co.’s DRAM capital expenditure budget is projected to decline 21 percent to US$4.9 billion this year, according to market [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Wednesday it has started shipping the industry’s first DRAM modules made using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. Samsung said it has shipped one million units of 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 (Double Date Rate 4) DRAM modules that were produced with the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. raised its share in the global DRAM market in the second quarter thanks to some recovery demand in the server sector, but revenues fell due to slumping prices, a market researcher said Friday. Samsung’s market share in the DRAM market stood at 45.7 percent in the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The party is over for South Korean memory chip makers after a two-year boom, and deep-pocketed industry leaders are now looking to the future to find the new growth drivers in the non-memory chip business. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter net rose 6 percent from a year earlier, which fell below the market expectation in the wake of slowing demand for memory chips and falling global sales prices. The net profit for the world’s No. 2 memory chip producer came to 3.4 [...]