Chinese manufacturers of chips or devices for their production repeatedly become suspects in cases of industrial espionage, but there are also precedents whose interaction patterns are opposite. Recently, the Chinese company YMTC accused the...
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Back in October last year, it was announced that Apple planned to use solid-state storage from Chinese company YMTC in its iPhone smartphones, but changes in export control regulations have deprived it of this option. But now South Korean sources...
Back in November last year, the Chinese company YMTC announced the start of mass production of 232-layer QLC 3D NAND memories, ahead of competitors such as Kioxia and SK hynix. Even Micron Technology, with its 232-layer TLC 3D NAND memory, is...
The Chinese company YMTC has been on the US export control list since December last year, so its management knows firsthand the consequences of US sanctions. The company’s chief executive, Chen Nanxiang, now leads a Chinese industry...
President and Head of Memory Division of Samsung Electronics Jung-Bae Lee reported in its blog that the company will begin mass production of 9th generation 3D NAND memory with more than 300 layers in early 2024. This leads us to expect new and more...
Since 2014, Samsung Electronics has been building its production site in the Chinese city of Xi’an and currently provides up to 40% of the production volume of 3D NAND memory chips of this brand, but only in the 128-layer design. Samsung will...
The production of 3D NAND memory, which uses a spatial arrangement with vertical connections between layers in chips, requires specialized equipment and has so far been entirely controlled by the American company Lam Research. The Japanese company...
SK hynix, as owner of the former Intel 3D NAND flash memory division, demonstrated An interesting new product is the Solidigm D7-P5810 solid-state drive with SLC memory for intensive recording loads. The nuance is that SLC memories have not been...
In October last year, US sanctions restricted the supply of equipment to China that allows the production of solid-state memory with more than 128 layers, and two months earlier the Chinese company YMTC introduced its 232-layer 3D NAND chips to the...
At the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023, SK hynix is the first in the industry showed Flash memory example with over 300 levels. This is what the future will look like when smart assistants become ubiquitous. The company hasn’t fully completed...
The flash memory market has not yet reached equilibrium as supply far exceeds demand and prices are naturally falling. In this situation, the willingness of the Chinese company YMTC to raise prices for its 3D NAND products seems strange, but...
According to the terms of the 2020 deal between Intel and SK hynix, the Korean side must pay the American company $2 billion by March 2025, and also take full operational control of the company in Dalian, China, which produces 3D NAND flash memory ...
Founded less than seven years ago, the Chinese company YMTC has started to converge in its technological development with the world leaders in the production of 3D NAND memory, but since last year new US sanctions have restricted it from buying...
