The global mobile DRAM market grew 11 percent in the second quarter, reaching $3.0 billion, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of global market research firm TrendForce. Mobile DRAM accounts for 34 percent of the total DRAM revenue.
Leading LED suppliers continue to increase their capital spending and production due to government incentives and to take advantage of an expected surge in the lighting business, despite an oversupply in the market, reported IHS.
Contract prices for NAND Flash fell by about six to nine percent in the second half of July due to weaker than expected demand in the NAND flash market, ending the market’s upward price trend, according to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce.
The average price of mainstream 4GB DRAM modules has increased by 16 percent in the second quarter of 2013 from $23.50 to $27.25, as DRAM suppliers reduce production of commodity DRAMs, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of research firm TrendForce. This is the highest price for 4GB modules this year, indicating the end of an oversupply…
Samsung Electronics has started to mass produce the industry’s first 3D V-NAND flash memory. This represents a breakthrough of the current scaling limit for existing NAND flash technology with improvements in performance and area ratio, said the semiconductor manufacturer.
The global market for merchant power supplies is forecast to grow by 2.4 percent in 2013, bolstered by demand for tablets, smartphones, LED lighting, and servers, according to IMS Research.
Light and proximity sensors in mobile handsets and tablets are set for expansive double-digit growth within a five-year period, thanks to increasing usage by electronic giants Samsung and Apple. Light and proximity sensors can detect a user’s presence as well as help optimize display brightness and color rendering. Revenue for the sensors is forecast to…
For the second calendar quarter in a row, smartphone shipments represented more than half (52%) of the world’s mobile phone shipments. Led by electronics manufacturer Samsung, an estimated 408 million handsets and 214 million smartphones shipped during the second quarter of 2013, according to market intelligence firm ABI Research. Feature phone shipments declined 20% year-over-year…
The Plaintiffs in class actions filed in British Columbia, Ontario and Québec claim that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Semiconductor Inc., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and Samsung Electronics Canada Inc. (“Samsung”) and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Hynix Semiconductor America Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing America, Inc. (“Hynix”), and numerous other DRAM manufacturers conspired to fix the…
El Segundo, Calif. − Only eight out of the Top 25 semiconductor suppliers increased their revenue growth in 2012. Those include Samsung (No. 2), Qualcomm (No. 3), Broadcom (No. 9), Sony (No. 11), NXP (No. 14), nVidia (No. 15), MediaTek (No. 18) and LSI (No.24). Global IC revenue declined by 2.2 percent from 2011, according…
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