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DRAM Pricing - A White Paper
White Papers DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) is the world's best-selling electronic memory technology, commanding over half the total memory market in 2001. DRAM costs less, per bit, than any other memory technology.
[September 20, 2004, 0:00]
Samsung: DRAM Price Rise Unlikely Before End-May
News A Samsung Electronics executive said on Wednesday that it sees continued difficulty in the DRAM memory chip market this year, and is unlikely to raise DRAM prices before the end of May. The DRAM market continues to look difficult for now.
[April 17, 2008, 9:33]
Infineon Busted? Play It Again, DRAM
Leader The news that Infineon has been fined $160m (£88m) for conspiring with "unnamed DRAM manufacturers" to fix the price of memory chips is notable for the size of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division's winnings -- the third biggest...
[September 16, 2004, 12:20]
DRAM Market Set For 2005 'downturn'
News Worldwide revenue from DRAM, the memory found inside computers, will grow a whopping 56.2 percent to reach $26.7bn in 2004, according to research company iSuppli. But next year, revenue will grow a marginal 1.3 percent.
[December 20, 2004, 11:10]
Handspring Reports Micron DRAM Glitch
News Palm revealed last week that some of its Palm IIIc, IIIxe and Vx devices contain a defective 8MB DRAM chip manufactured by Micron Technology. Palm, TRG and Handspring have all posted software patches to their Web sites; Palm's can be found at http...
[July 3, 2000, 10:03]
Koreans Set DRAM Price-rise Clock Ticking
News Samsung, Hyundai and LG Semicon will stop production of 16-megabit DRAM for up to eight days this month to try and end the slump in international spot pricing. The move is expected to ignite a DRAM price rise, although this is not expected to...
[July 9, 1997, 11:58]
Innovative Mobile Products Require Early Access To Optimized DRAM Solutions
White Papers DRAM remains the most practical high-density storage solution for cost sensitive applications but needs to be optimized for mobile applications in order to support the designers needs. As applications and technology evolve, industry analysts are...
[October 5, 2004, 0:00]
A Case For Studying DRAM Issues At The System Level
White Papers The widening gap between today's processor and memory speeds makes DRAM subsystem design an increasingly important part of computer system design. If the DRAM research community would follow the microprocessor community's lead by leaning more...
[September 23, 2004, 0:00]
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]
Infineon Admits To DRAM Price Fixing
News Infineon Technologies will plead guilty to taking part in an international DRAM price-fixing conspiracy, which affected such companies as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple, the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
[September 16, 2004, 9:20]
Improving Energy Efficiency By Making DRAM Less Randomly Accessed
White Papers However, passively monitoring the memory traffic can be far from being effective as idle periods between consecutive memory accesses are often too short for existing power-management techniques to take full advantage of the deeper power-saving...
[August 31, 2007, 0:00]
On-Chip MRAM As A High-Bandwidth, Low-Latency Replacement For DRAM Physical Memories
White Papers MRAM devices are nonvolatile, and have the potential to be faster than DRAM, denser than embedded DRAM, and can be integrated into the processor die in layers above those of conventional wiring. Impediments to main memory performance have...
[March 30, 2005, 0:00]
New ASIC Process Technology Makes Embedded DRAM Practical Choice For High-Performance Applications
White Papers This white paper describes those tradeoffs and explains how NEC Electronics has transformed embedded DRAM options with a new process technology that reduces the number of fabrication steps and improves system performance by making the embedded...
[September 20, 2004, 0:00]
NEC Electronics Embedded DRAM Over 10 Gbps Sonet/SDH And Ethernet Takes Off
White Papers Together, the 200-MHz random access embedded DRAM and newly developed Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)-compliant System Packet Interface Level-4 Phase 2 (SPI4.2) interface core promise lower power consumption, higher memory integration, higher...
[September 20, 2004, 0:00]
FPM, EDO, And Synchronous DRAM Technologies
White Papers This whitepaper discusses general DRAM concepts, and briefly compares and contrasts Fast Page Mode, Extended Data Out, and Synchronous DRAM technologies. The reader is assumed to be familiar with the needs for faster memory response to faster...
[November 9, 2003, 23:00]
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]
Concurrency, Latency, Or System Overhead: Which Has The Largest Impact On Uniprocessor DRAM-System Performance?
White Papers This paper characterizes the sources of overhead in high-performance DRAM systems and investigates the most effective ways to reduce a system's exposure to performance loss. In particular, we look at mechanisms to increase a system's support for...
[September 23, 2004, 0:00]
Hynix Fined $185m For DRAM Price Fixing
News The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that Hynix Semiconductor has agreed to plead guilty to criminal antitrust violations over DRAM price fixing and pay a $185m (£96.7m) fine. Hynix is the latest DRAM maker to reach a settlement with the...
[April 22, 2005, 9:45]
Samsung Drive May Halt DRAM Market Recovery
News The healthy price gain confirmed the DRAM market has bottomed out after a 15-month slump, but analysts said a recovery this year could be short-lived due to a production drive by sector leader Samsung Electronics.
[May 6, 2008, 9:54]
DRAM Price Crash Looming
News The lull in PC sales is having its affects on a number of tier two vendors but Vanguard md Roy Taylor has hinted that Intel's attempt to standardise on the PII architecture could push more PC makers towards standardising on 64MB machines, as...
[March 3, 1998, 13:57]
