DRAM popularity and DRAM trends

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun producing the industry’s first four gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) memory using 20 nanometer (nm) class technology. The mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip, which went into mass production last month, will help the market to deliver advanced devices that are faster, lighter and provide longer battery life tha...

Shares of DRAM maker Micron Technology (MU) are up 33 cents, or 5.4%, at $6.34 following a report this morning by DigiTimes’s Josephine Lien and Jessie Shen saying that Apple (AAPL) has placed “huge orders” for memory chips with Elpida (ELPDF), the Japanese manufacturer that Micron is helping restructure after bankruptcy. The orders were supposedly [...]

Design is expected to have a 13 MP camera, pack 2 GB of DRAM and a voice-over-LTE capable modem

angry tapir writes "Micron has said that DDR4 memory — the successor to DDR3 DRAM — will reach computers next year, and that the company has started shipping samples of the upcoming DDR memory type. DDR4 is more power-efficient and faster than DDR3. New forms of DDR memory first make it into servers and desktops, and then into laptops. Micron said it hopes that DDR4 memory will also reach porta...

Nace una sala de teatro a modo de laboratorio de actores en el teatro Valle-Inclán, en el corazón del barrio de Lavapiés

SK Hynix a dit avoir renoncé à son offre sur le fabricant de mémoires japonais failli Elpida Memory, jugeant que la transaction ne lui procurerait aucun "avantage stratégique". Elpida est le numéro trois mondial des mémoires DRAM, derrière les coréens Samsung et SK Hynix, avec une part de marché de...

The United States is moving to ease bans on U.S. companies investing in and providing financial services to Burma, and will first target those sectors that could support democratic reforms in the country, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

Investors should exercise caution until the D-RAM industry’s overcapacity habit has really been dealt with

IT MIGHT BE the warming nip of malt at the end of the tour, or the “shindig nights”, or simply its central location in Smithfield. Whatever the reason, the Old Jameson Distillery is proving increasingly popular with visitors to Dublin.

The bankruptcy filing of Japanese DRAM maker Elpida Memory is a reminder of how much things can change.

Dram makers are facing an industry that is shifting from PCs to smartphones, tablets, and the cloud – which use different types of memory

Schon 2013 will Elpida die Serienproduktion von 512-MByte-Speicherchips aufnehmen, die Vorzüge von NAND-Flash und DRAM kombinieren: Nichtflüchtig und schnell soll ReRAM sein.

IBM hat ein neues RAM-Design vorgestellt, bei dem die Speicherzellen dreidimensional aufgebaut sind. So sollen Speicherzugriffe wesentlich schneller als bei herkömmlicher Bauweise möglich sein. mehr...

The world’s largest festival of its kind, the FNB Whisky Live Festival was held at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg recently. Bringing together the world’s top whisky houses with the connoisseurs and occasional sippers of a dram or two, the festival is the superlative occasion to sample the best and the exceptional as well as uncovering the mysteries of the golden liquid.