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Memory Upswing Returns, New Record High Expected in 2022 (2021.05.21)
Fueled by economic recovery and the transition to a digital economy, memory IC sales are forecast to reach $180.4 billion in 2022, exceeding the previous record high set in 2018.
IC Insights recently updated its forecast for 33 major IC product categories, including DRAM and NAND flash, in its April Update to the 2021 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR21) |
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DRAM Leads in Revenue, NAND With Top Percentage Growth in 2020 (2020.12.07)
Coming as no surprise, each of the top-five IC product categories in terms of sales all have ties to computing or communication applications. With estimated sales of $65.2 billion, DRAM tops the list with the greatest sales revenue in 2020, followed in second place by NAND flash, according to IC Insights |
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NOR Flash ASP to Potentially Drop in 2H20 as Inventory Pressure Mounts (2020.06.17)
According to the latest investigations by the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, NOR Flash buyers found that their inventories were low and stepped up their procurement efforts as they anticipated the growing risk of COVID-19 causing disruptions in the supply chain |
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Samsung Announces New NAND Flash Facility to Address Future Data Center and Mobile Demands (2020.06.01)
Samsung Electronics announced plans to expand its NAND flash production capacity in Pyeongtaek, Korea, reinforcing the company’s ability to meet demands from emerging technologies. Construction, which began this May, will pave the way for mass production of Samsung's cutting-edge V-NAND memory in the second half of 2021 |
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NAND Flash Revenue Undergoes 8.3% QoQ Growth in 1Q20 in Light of Surging Demand from Data Centers (2020.05.25)
According to the latest investigations by the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, NAND Flash bit shipment in 1Q20 was relatively on par with 4Q19. The overall ASP of NAND Flash products also climbed during the period |
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Competition in NAND Flash Market to Intensify in 2021 as YMTC Unveils 128L Products on Schedule (2020.04.22)
According to the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, Chinese NAND Flash manufacturer YMTC submitted samples of its 128L 3D NAND products to storage controller chip suppliers in 1Q20. The company is aiming to begin wafer input in 3Q20 and start mass production by the end of the year |
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Taiwan Memory Industry to Raise with 5G and AI Era (2020.03.30)
Is it time for Taiwan's memory industry to catch up with the United States and c South Korea? Perhaps not many people have thought that Taiwan's memory industry may have the opportunity to stand on the leading position in the world, and it is not OEM; it is in the development of technology and applications |
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of the Fastest Storage for Flagship Smartphones (2020.03.17)
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 512-gigabyte (GB) eUFS (embedded Universal Flash Storage) 3.1 for use in flagship smartphones. Delivering three times the write speed of the previous 512GB eUFS 3 |
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry’s First 16GB LPDDR5 DRAM (2020.02.27)
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 16-gigabyte (GB) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM package for next-generation premium smartphones. Following mass production of the industry-first 12GB LPDDR5 in July, 2019, the new 16GB advancement will lead the premium mobile memory market with added capacity that enables enhanced 5G and AI features including graphic-rich gaming and smart photography |
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Samsung Launches the 'Flashbolt', Industry's First 3rd-generation (16GB) HBM2E (2020.02.04)
Samsung Electronics today announced the market launch of 'Flashbolt', its third-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2E (HBM2E). The new 16-gigabyte (GB) HBM2E is uniquely suited to maximize high performance computing (HPC) systems and help system manufacturers to advance their supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics and state-of-the-art graphics systems in a timely manner |
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1Q20 NAND Flash Price Is Projected to Continue Rising, Says TrendForce (2020.01.02)
According to the latest analysis by the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, the contract price of client SSD has fallen for seven consecutive quarters until 2Q19 from peak price, to barely above the price of HDD. As a result of this price decrease, the share of SSD, along with their capacity, used in notebook computers has risen since 2Q19 |
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3Q19 NAND Flash Revenue Grows 10% amidst Resurging Pre-Peak Season Demand for Shipment (2019.11.25)
According to the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, 3Q19 NAND flash industrial revenue showed a nearly 15% growth of total bit shipment, owing to the seasonality-driven demand for products shipments and the additional product shipment made available in preparation for U |
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Innodisk’s New 3D NAND TLC SSD Series Targets Enterprise Workload Applications (2019.09.18)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Innodisk using the latest 3D NAND vertical architecture technology, have delivered stellar performance and blistering speeds in the latest iteration of the company’s new 3D NAND TLC SSD range. The Innodisk |
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Memory Forecast to Account for 43% of Total 2019 Semi Spending (2019.09.11)
Capex spending for memory ICs was the driving factor behind very strong increases in industry-wide capex spending over the past two years. Most of those upgrades and expansion plans are now completed or have entered their final building phases |
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Toshiba to Showcase Industry’s Fastest-class PCIe 4.0 SSDs (2019.08.07)
Toshiba Memory Corporation announced that it has developed the industry’s fastest-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs for enterprise applications that achieve a sequential read performance of over 6.4GB/s. A reference display and a demo of the new CM6 Series SSDs will be showcased in Toshiba Memory America’s booth (#307, Hall A) at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, USA, which will be held until August 8 |
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Samsung Electronics Introduces New 3D Memory With Sixth-gen V-NAND SSDs for Client Computing (2019.08.06)
Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing 250-gigabyte (GB) SATA solid state drive (SSD) that integrates the company’s sixth-generation (1xx-layer) 256-gigabit (Gb) three-bit V-NAND for global PC OEMs. By launching a new generation of V-NAND in just 13 months, Samsung has reduced the mass production cycle by four months while securing the industry’s highest performance, power efficiency and manufacturing productivity |
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NAND Flash Contract Price Decline Shrinks in 3Q, with Wafer Prices to Grow Against the Trend (2019.08.06)
DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, has just released contract prices for various products in July, in which we see contract prices still trending down overall, but those for mainstream products shrinking due to the Toshiba outage directly impacting production |
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Toshiba Memory Corporation Introduces XL-FLASH Storage Class Memory Solution (2019.08.06)
Toshiba Memory announced the launch of a new Storage Class Memory (SCM) solution: XL-FLASH. Based on the company’s innovative BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology with 1bit-per-cell SLC, XL-FLASH brings low latency and high performance to data center and enterprise storage |
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Silicon Motion Showcases New Products at 2019 Flash Memory Summit (2019.08.05)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Silicon Motion Technology today announced it will be presenting at the upcoming Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA from Aug 6th to 8th. Featured at the event will be an array of new industry-leading SSD controller and storage solutions for enterprise/data center, client SSD controller solutions for personal computing, UFS controllers for mobile and single-chip SSD, eMMC and UFS for industrial/automotive applications |
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Swissbit Introduces Industrial Grade 3D-NAND-SSD (2019.07.16)
3D-NAND-based SSD’s are common in consumer markets. Swissbit is now pleased to introduce a range of 3D-NAND-SSD products that are specifically optimized for demanding industrial- and NetCom applications. The X-75-range includes product versions with 2 |
