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Thursday 15 July 2021
HDD makers to see supply constrained in 2H21
A resurgence of the COVID-19 in Thailand, coupled with shortages of certain chips and components, may disrupt shipments of hard disc drives (HDD) in the second half of 2021 despite...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Global NAND flash revenue set to grow in 2Q21, says TrendForce
The global NAND flash market was still oversupplied in the first quarter of 2021, when the memory ASPs fell about 5% sequentially, according to TrendForce. However, with the supply...
Friday 26 February 2021
Kioxia breaks ground for new 3D NAND wafer fab
Kioxia held a groundbreaking ceremony for a semiconductor fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan on February 24. The facility will be dedicated...
Friday 19 February 2021
Kioxia, Western Digital announce 6th-gen 3D flash memory
Kioxia and Western Digital jointly announced they have developed their sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology.
Wednesday 17 February 2021
Top-5 wafer capacity leaders raise share of global capacity to 54%, says IC Insights
The top-5 wafer capacity leaders saw their combined installed capacity represent 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, according to IC Insights. In 2009, the top-10...
Thursday 29 October 2020
Kioxia to build new fab for 3D flash manufacturing
Kioxia has announced it will begin to construct a fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan to expand production of its proprietary 3D flash memory...
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Wistron to acquire WD plant in Malaysia
Wistron has announced it will spend US$28.74 million to acquire a plant from Western Digital (WD) in Malaysia via its subsidiary Wistron Technology (Malaysia).
Tuesday 14 July 2020
Demand for QLC NAND memory set to boom
The adoption of QLC (4bits/cell) NAND memory is set to grow rapidly starting the second half of 2020, thanks to rising demand for data-intensive applications demanding large-capacity,...
Monday 18 May 2020
TSMC 5nm fab in US could reshape global chipmaking supply chain, says Digitimes Research
A TSMC wafer fab designed for advanced 5nm process manufacturing in the US could drive changes to many semiconductor players within the supply chain, according to Digitimes Researc...
Monday 27 April 2020
Western Digital raising enterprise HDD prices
Western Digital reportedly is raising its prices for enterprise-use HDDs to reflect increased costs from production and logistics with mainstream products expected to see more than...
Thursday 16 April 2020
Intel reclaims top position in semiconductors
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$419.1 billion in 2019, down 12% from 2018, according to final results by Gartner. Intel regained the top position in the market as the downturn...
Monday 2 March 2020
Kioxia strives to return to profitability
Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is reportedly looking to go public by October 2020, and therefore is striving to swing back to profit, according to industry sources.
Thursday 13 February 2020
Top-5 semiconductor firms hold 53% of global wafer capacity
The world's top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month, with their combined capacity representing 53% of the world's total wafer...
Thursday 16 January 2020
Worldwide semiconductor revenue drops 11.9% in 2019, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, according to Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the...
Tuesday 17 September 2019
HDD demand from datacenter players to rise in 4Q19 and 1Q20
China- and US-based datacenter players are expected to replenish their HDD inventory beginning from fourth-quarter 2019 to first-quarter 2020, as demand for datacenter establishments...
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