2000: The Year Of The Chip
News Other factors include the price hikes experienced in the to the DRAM memory market in the latter part of the year. The September quake in Taiwan played a part, causing panic on the "spot market" -- where spare or non-allocated DRAM is sold -- and...
[January 7, 2000, 10:10]
Infineon Fights On With Rambus Countersuit
News Just as important is that the eight memory companies that settled with Rambus would no doubt use an Infineon verdict as ammunition to renegotiate or even cancel SDRAM/DDR DRAM licensing agreements signed before the trial.
[May 8, 2001, 9:13]
Intel To Bring SDRAM To Pentium 4
News So was Intel looking at supporting SDRAM or even double data rate DRAM (DDR DRAM) for Pentium 4? RDRAM continues to command a hefty premium over SDRAM. Intel today will make public plans to support synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) for its...
[July 26, 2000, 9:07]
Dell Trying To Sidestep Chip 'cartel'
News I think we saw cartel-like behaviour by a couple of DRAM suppliers. These companies assumed that they could increase the price of DRAM and see an increase in supply," Dell said, "But the world doesn't work that way.
[May 1, 2002, 16:48]
PC Memory: The Next Great Battle?
News DDR DRAM, pioneered by a consortium of chip makers and embraced by AMD, promises to more than double the available memory bandwidth of a PC, and for a very small price premium. The technologies at the centre of the debate are Rambus direct RAM and...
[March 24, 2000, 9:53]
AMD Under Fire In The Courtroom
News In its complaint, AMD asserted that Intel prevented it from joining the Advanced DRAM The answer also noted that Acer continues to use AMD chips. In its lawsuit filed in June, AMD claimed that Intel imposed scare tactics and coercion on 38...
[September 2, 2005, 8:55]
Deal Sends Tremors Through DRAM Biz
News With a single stroke of a pen, Micron Technologies has changed the face of the DRAM business. The Nampa, Idaho-based DRAM (dynamic random access memory) manufacturer announced on Tuesday that it has inked a deal to acquire Toshiba's Dominion...
[December 19, 2001, 12:09]
IDF: Faster Rambus DRAM To Take On Rivals
News Memory-chip designer Rambus will show off faster versions of its DRAM technology in San Francisco this week at the Intel Developer Forum, a confab for computer-hardware designers, the press and other tech mavens.
[February 26, 2002, 11:55]
FTC Limits Size Of Rambus Royalties
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a decision announced on Monday substantially limited the size of royalties that memory chipmaker Rambus can charge for its DRAM technology. While we believe it appropriate that the commission did not reach DDR...
[February 6, 2007, 12:52]
Wireless Is More For Chip Sales
News The computer segment also showed growth, with DRAM sales rising 5.8 percent, but microprocessors inching up just 0.5 percent. The wireless sector continues to be the strongest single market. Activity in the wireless sector helped keep worldwide...
[December 31, 2002, 9:28]
Apple Crushes 1Q Estimates
News Higher-than-expected prices for components, especially DRAM chips Apple also continues to deliver the best asset management in the industry, ending the quarter with less than one day of inventory. Apple Computer destroyed analysts' estimates in its...
[January 20, 2000, 8:35]
Report: Chip Market To Grow, But Slowly
News The market for DRAM memory chips will grow 35 percent to $15bn this year, and 35 percent again in 2003 to $20bn. At the same time, indigenous consumption continues to grow. The semiconductor market is picking up steam, but it won't return to the...
[November 7, 2002, 8:14]
MetaRam: Putting Terabytes Of Memory Into Servers
News Instead of talking to four 1Gb DRAMs, we make it think it is talking to one 4Gb DRAM. Performance continues to double about every 18 months or so. MetaRam chief executive Fred Weber is talking about putting terabytes of memory into servers.
[February 26, 2008, 11:26]
Magnetic Memory Set To Charge The Market
News If the current trend for faster, more capable, more reliable computing operating at ever smaller amounts of power continues, the chances are good that MRAM will become increasingly attractive -- just don't expect it to replace gigabit DRAM sticks...
[February 12, 2003, 8:16]
Desktops: Kiss Pentium IIIs Goodbye
News Rambus could also begin to look better as more computer companies begin to work with double data rate (DDR) DRAM, a competing type of memory that is being matched with the Athlon. Rambus continues to be a wild card.
[March 2, 2001, 7:36]
600 Jobs Lost At NEC's Scottish Chip Plant
News Back in April NEC said that it would halt the production of DRAM chips at Livingston by March 2003, and shift to more profitable products. Scotland was a victim of the tech slump once again when NEC announced on Tuesday that it planned to cut 600...
[July 31, 2001, 11:56]
Rambus' Patent Warfare
News The company may also be trying to make RDRAM look more attractive than DDR DRAM, a direct competitor, by making DDR DRAM more expensive to manufacture. At the moment RDRAM is significantly more expensive than DDR DRAM, although some testers say it...
[August 14, 2000, 17:02]
Experts: Memory Prices Going 'crazy'
News As previously reported on ZDNet DRAM prices have been rising rapidly in recent weeks. According to Dataquest analyst Richard Gordon, the rise is being fuelled by DRAM brokers on the so-called "spot market" -- where spare or non-allocated DRAM is...
[September 15, 1999, 17:00]
