Back-end segment and the wafer-level packaging (WLP)-related segments ruled the semiconductor market during the year Global semiconductor capex on manufacturing equipment declined 16.1% during 2012 to $37.8bn compared to 2011, according ...
The memory market is feeling the effects of a fall in PC shipments with the subsequent stabilization of DRAM prices, which industry observers say will delay the wide adoption of the upcoming DRAM called DDR4. The latest PCs and servers ...
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Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last fall, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
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The worldwide capital equipment market fell 15% last year to $36.9bn from $43.5 billion in 2011, says SEMI. SEMI expects a flat to single-digit decline trend this year and a strong recovery in 2014. ...
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing a 128-gigabit (Gb), 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND memory chip using sub-20 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. The flash chip will be used to create Samsung's ...
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Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last autumn, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
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Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
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According to analyst firm Gartner, in-memory computing is “racing towards mainstream adoption”. Gartner believes that the "rapid maturation of application infrastructure technologies" and a continued "dramatic decline in the ...
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Viking Technology is shipping a memory board that combines DRAM and NAND flash memory to create a non-volatile standard DIMM card that can be used in servers and storage arrays. Viking's ArxCis-NV DIMM board has several purposes. With ...
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In-memory computing (IMC) will reach the enterprise mainstream by 2016, creating a market worth $1bn (£700m) by 2016. So say analysts at Gartner. The research firm cites the "rapid maturation of infrastructure technologies" coupled ...
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After multiple years of double-digit drops, prices for DRAM could stabilize as demand exceeds supply and the number of memory makers dwindles, a research analyst for IC Insights said this week. The average selling price for DRAM in ...
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Industry consolidation to just three big DRAM suppliers and a reduction in capital expenditures among these manufacturers helped propel DRAM average selling prices (ASPs) up 13% year over year in January, which contributed to a 19.9% jump ...
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Seagate today announced upgrades to its 2.5-in. laptop hybrid drives and released its first 3.5-in. desktop hybrid drive. Hybrid drives combine a relatively small amount of NAND flash with traditional spinning disks along with firmware ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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Computerworld - After offering solid-state drives (SSDs) in its storage arrays over the past three years, NetApp said it will begin selling an all-SSD array this year and what it called a "purpose-built" flash storage architecture in 2014. ...
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