Tsinghua Unigroup has announced the appointment of Yukio Sakamoto, the former CEO for Japan's Elpida Memory, as senior VP of Unigroup and head of the group's Japan-based unit.

Memory module firm Transcend Information expects to post better financial results for the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter, citing recovery in end-market demand and chip...

Following a plunge during the first three months of this year, global solid-state drive (SSD) shipments snapped back to growth in the second quarter as demand from the client system...

Flash memory chipmakers have seen demand for 5G and AIoT related applications ramp up with order visibility stretched through the first quarter of 2020, according to industry sourc...

The global DRAM market, now over 90% controlled by three major players Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron, is likely to experience a structural shakeup in the next 5-10 years,...

With revenues hitting a record high in the third quarter of 2019, Macronix International expects its sales to remain robust in the fourth quarter thanks to bullish demand for NOR...

Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) started producing 256Gb TLC chips using its in-house developed 64-layer 3D NAND technology in the first quarter of 2019, with monthly output reaching...

Leading-edge processes, defined as sub-28nm technologies, accounted for the largest portion in terms of monthly installed capacity available in 2015. By the end of 2019, sub-28nm...

Global smartphone shipments will continue to decline for the second year in 2019. Although emerging markets have demand coming from feature phone users switching to smartphones, it...

Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) is aggressively improving its 64-layer 3D NAND flash memory production yield rate, gearing up to ship the chips for SSD applications in the first...

NAND and NOR flash demand for TWS devices, gaming consoles and smartphones has been rising along with the approaching of traditional shopping seasons, providing significant growth...

Taiwan-based Powertech Technology (PTI) is working closely with Intel and will be engaged in the packaging services for the chip giant's upcoming QLC 3D NAND and heterogeneous chip...

With suppliers cutting back production and end-market demand picking up on seasonality, NAND flash contract prices have stopped falling in the third quarter and will rise 10% in the...

NAND flash storage solutions will see much stronger demand in 2020 than 2019 driven by the commercialization of 5G networks and devices, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO...

Macronix International has obtained 19nm SLC NAND chip orders for set-top boxes (STB) with shipments already kicking off, according to company chairman Miin Wu.

Toshiba Memory has announced the launch of a new family of SLC NAND flash memory products for embedded applications. Compatible with the widely-used serial peripheral interface (SPI),...

Intel has unveiled its second-generation Optane storage-class memory codenamed Barlow Pass that will be launched along with its new-generation Xeon CPUs in 2020. Intel also disclosed...

NAND flash chip vendors have stepped up their pace of deployments in the enterprise and datacenter fields, eyeing new opportunities for future growth.

Pure Storage, an all-flash array storage product vendor, has seen double-digit growths that are far stronger than those of other major vendors who mostly have only single-digit increases...

The emerging AI, IoT and 5G applications will be stimulating related chip and component demand, with a rebound likely to take place in the memory market next year, according to market...

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...

Memory modules specialist Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) is expected to see its September revenues hit an all-time high for the third consecutive month, driven by a pull-in...

Capex spending for memory ICs was the driving factor behind strong increases in industry-wide capex spending over the past two years. Most of those upgrades and expansion plans are...

Spending on 300mm fab equipment will slowly recover in 2020 after the 2019 downturn and take off in 2021 to log a new record high topping US$60 billion, only to lag again in 2022...

China's Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has kicked off volume production of 64-layer 256Gb TLC 3D NAND chips, according to indsutry sources.