Japanese company Kioxia reported an operating loss of 100.8 billion yen ($664.5 million) for the second quarter of its current fiscal year, which ended September 30. This result is due to a decline in demand for flash memory for smartphones and PCs...
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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...
Last year, the cost of solid-state drives on the global market was at an extremely low level. In some cases, a 1TB SSD could be purchased for less than a hard drive of the same capacity. However, the days of cheap NAND flash memory seem to be coming...
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest memory maker and one of the latest to begin reducing production volumes of NAND chips to provoke a price rise after a prolonged decline. This quarter, the company decided to...
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...
This year, even the leading company in the market, Samsung Electronics, decided to reduce the production volumes of NAND memory, although it has held out the longest in this regard compared to its competitors. The involuntary consolidation of market...
QuInAs Technology, a British developer of a novel non-volatile memory, announced the purchase of equipment to produce a 20nm prototype. The sample must confirm UltraRAM’s claimed high characteristics, from the highest read speeds to the...
The NAND flash memory market was unable to overcome weak demand in the second quarter, which continues to lag behind supply. However, shipment volumes rose 19.9% compared to the previous three months, and manufacturers’ revenue rose 7.4%...
Research firm WebFeet Research forecasts that the NAND market will be $34.6 billion in 2023, down 43% year-on-year. The reason lies in the simultaneously falling demand for servers, laptops and smartphones. For example, while there are still many...
Young companies in the semiconductor market do not lose their healthy ambitions, especially when they are supported by real successes. South Korean solid-state drive controller developer FADU currently accounts for no more than 1 percent of the...
Kioxia has announced a new generation of UFS 4.0 flash memory chips. Chips are produced in quantities of 256 and 512 GB and 1 TB. The company began shipping 256GB and 512GB chip samples this month. 1TB chip samples are scheduled to ship in October...
Rumors of Kioxia and Western Digital’s intentions to merge assets related to the release of solid-state storage first surfaced back in 2021, but then disagreements arose during negotiations over the valuation of the two parties’ business...
Western Digital Corporation is unique in that it is also a major manufacturer of platter hard drives and solid state drives. Both market segments didn’t perform very well last quarter, resulting in a 36% year-over-year decline in the...
At the ISSCC 2023 conference, representatives from SK hynix gave a presentation in which reported about the development of the world’s first 3D NAND memory with over 300 layers. The document was prepared by 35 engineers of the company, which...
According to analysts, the entire past six months TrendForce, was marked by a drop in demand for NAND flash memory, and contract prices fell by 20-25%. In the enterprise SSD segment, the discount reached 28%. In the fourth quarter, NAND memory...
The global production of memory chips is experiencing an enormous drop in demand. The second half of 2022 saw the biggest quarterly price declines on record. writes Bloomberg agency. Image source: Pixabay According to TrendForce, the average DRAM...
