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Judge Dismisses Rambus Charges Against Hynix
News A US judge last week dismissed most of Rambus' patent claims against Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, one of the biggest memory manufacturers. Any charges levied on manufacturers such as Hynix would have been passed on to consumers and businesses who...
[November 26, 2001, 17:26]
AMD Unveils Low-power Flash Memory
News The chipmaker announced on Wednesday that its new power-stingy flash memory chip is now available to manufacturers. By using lower-power components such as flash memory, the manufacturers can hold the line on battery life and maintain the smaller...
[August 7, 2002, 15:56]
Rambus Starts Licensing Designs To Use Disputed Memory
News Rambus, the memory designer that is suing manufacturers over their use of DDR memory, is now marketing technology that will help chipmakers adopt it. Part of the reason is that the memory manufacturers felt that Rambus, which has only about 200...
[May 10, 2004, 12:00]
Dell Trying To Sidestep Chip 'cartel'
News Dell has opened up relationships with a wider variety of memory manufacturers to curb the effect of recent price hikes in memory chips, chief executive Michael Dell said on Tuesday. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker has begun to obtain memory...
[May 1, 2002, 16:48]
Memory Makers Ride Out Downturn
News Prices have sunk to the point where memory manufacturers are selling their chips for well below cost and are unable to cut costs deeply enough to squeeze out a profit, despite repeated rounds of layoffs.
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
Intel Stacks Up On Memory
News Intel has released a new package for stacking memory chips that will let manufacturers put more memory into mobile phones without increasing the size of the handsets. The new package, called the Ultra-Thin Stacked Chip Scale Package, lets...
[April 10, 2003, 8:00]
Micron Hints At DRAM Downturn
News Steve Appleton, chief executive, president and chairman of Micron, one of the three biggest memory manufacturers, said Monday the company has cancelled expansion plans because it expects low demand. Chip manufacturers such as Hitachi have also been...
[March 13, 2001, 11:38]
Motherboard Makers Look To Phase Out Rambus
News Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers are anticipating a quick production ramp of new products for Intel's Pentium 4 PC chip that do not use Rambus' proprietary memory technology -- which could mean more bad news for Rambus.
[July 27, 2001, 17:44]
Dynamic RAM Readies For Rebound
News DRAM manufacturers, which mainly supply memory for personal computers and servers, should see revenue increases over the next two years, thanks to higher demand for DRAM from PCs and handheld devices and tighter controls on supply, according the...
[December 18, 2003, 11:00]
Intel's Latest Memory Chip Flashes By
News Intel on Wednesday introduced a new flash memory chip aimed at helping manufacturers pump up cellular phones for new uses such as capturing a photo or viewing a video. In anticipation of new uses for flash, such as viewing video clips, phone...
[April 17, 2002, 15:38]
PC Market Ripe For A Rebound
News PC makers, memory manufacturers and distributors combined were sitting on approximately 20 weeks of inventory at the beginning of the year, he said. The PC [manufacturers] are starting to go back to the DRAM guys and place orders.
[March 16, 2001, 10:24]
Intel Announces Flash Alliance
News Intel and STMicro have agreed to produce flash memory to a common specification for phones and collaborate in other areas, a deal that will eliminate some headaches for cell phone manufacturers. Cooperation will also drive down the cost of the two...
[December 6, 2005, 9:00]
Memory Price Rises Set To Continue
News Following one of its most harrowing years ever, the memory market should be more stable this year and allow big manufacturers to eke out a profit. However, manufacturers can easily start putting less memory in these boxes if the price continues to...
[March 13, 2002, 9:27]
EU Investigates Memory Allegations
News The probe focuses on whether memory manufacturers such as Samsung, Micron and Infineon colluded to drive up prices in late 2001. At various times in the past five years, some memory manufacturers have had to sell chips at below manufacturing costs.
[March 3, 2004, 7:30]
Samsung Bets On Controversial Memory Standard
News If DDR400 does become usable in PCs it would offer significantly faster memory speeds for high-end PCs, but industry observers say interest from system manufacturers in more advanced memory types has been less than earth-shattering.
[March 19, 2002, 17:22]
Mini Memory Cards Set For Launch
News A consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers next week will unveil a format for memory cards that will be smaller than Secure Digital (SD) cards, which are the size of postage stamps. A lot of the initial impetus came from the camera...
[January 29, 2004, 11:10]
Memory Prices Fading Fast
News It is difficult to assess how much excess memory is available on the market, as it is spread among PC makers, distributors and memory manufacturers. While Rambus memory remains far more expensive than standard memory, that higher price gives an...
[December 20, 2000, 16:04]
Symbian Integrates Push-email Support
News Demand paging also means "less RAM being used on the device, so our manufacturers have the option of putting less memory into the phones if they wish to", said Hutton, adding that "build costs will [therefore] be coming down to the point where...
[March 26, 2007, 13:00]
Oki Bows To Rambus Pressure
News Toshiba and Hitachi, two of the world's largest memory manufacturers, agreed earlier this month to license the SDRAM and DDR SDRAM technology from Rambus, ending a long-running legal dispute. Experts say Hitachi and Toshiba's move into Rambus' camp...
[July 28, 2000, 12:03]
Hard-drive Makers Look To The Middle Ground
News Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory. Discussions are only preliminary, but such a move could help manufacturers of hard drives - a technology that celebrates its 50th...
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
