SK Telecom to Buy Hynix
SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile operator, said Monday it will pay 3.43 trillion won (US$3.06 billion) for a 21.05 percent stake in Hynix...
Samsung Begins Operation of World's Largest Memory Fab, Initiates Mass Production of 20nm-Class DDR3
Samsung announced today that it has begun operations of its new Line-16 memory semiconductor fabrication facility, which will provide the industry's largest production capacity. The...
Elpida Responds to Strong Yen and Declining DRAM Prices
Elpida Memory, Inc., the world's third largest Japanese Dynamic Random Access Memory maker, announced a plan of action in response to historically high yen against...
Elpida Memory Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nanya
Elpida Memory, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a Taiwanese memory chip maker Nanya Technology and its U.S. subsidiary Nanya Technology Corporation, USA for infringement...
Elpida Starts First DRAM Shipments of 25nm Process Technology
Elpida Memory today announced that as of the end of July it had started sample shipments of the smallest chip now available in the DRAM...
Hynix and Toshiba To Develop MRAM
Hynix Semiconductor and Toshiba have agreed to strategic collaboration in the joint development of Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistance Random Access Memory (MRAM), a fast emerging next...
Elpida to Invest $990 million In New Chips
Elpida Memory plans to raise nearly 80 billion yen through new shares and convertible bonds as it shifts production away from DRAM memory to more...
Elpida Begins Sample Shipments of DDR3 SDRAM Based on TSV Stacking Technology
Elpida Memory has begun sample shipments of the first DDR3 SDRAM (x32-bit I/O configuration) made using TSV (Through Silicon Via) three-dimensional stack packaging technology. The...
Elpida Develops Ultra-thin Mobile RAM Package
Japanese supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Elpida Memory, Inc. and its subsidiary, Akita Elpida Memory, have developed the technology to mass manufacture a...
Elpida Develops 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM Using High-k Metal Gate Technology
Elpida Memory today announced the DRAM industry's first-ever use of high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology to develop a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM (LPDDR2) at the...
