Memory

According to the iSuppli figures, worldwide DRAM sales revenues in the first quarter of almost $9.5bn were 180% up on the first quarter in 2009

DRAM revenues hit $8.7bn in Q409 up from $6bn in Q309, and a massive rise from the lows of Q109, when DRAM sales revenues hit their lowest level since 2001, according to iSuppli.

Rocketing DRAM prices have led the world’s third largest DRAM manufacturer, Elpida of Japan, to announce that it will make a profit of $21m for the financial year to the end of March, the first annual profit it has made for three years. In its previous financial year it made a loss of $846m.

Numonyx, now owned by Micron Technology, says it has increased the read/write cycles on its 128Mbit phase change memory from 100,000 to 1m. The 128Mbit...

The fab could raise wafer capacity at Macronix by 20,000 per month

This is the second 25nm flash memory announcement this year and Toshiba could be in mass production of the 25nm flash chips in 2012

Fujitsu Microelectronics says it has developed an embedded flash memory macro that enables NOR flash memory read operations to run more efficiently at speeds of 10ns

First 55nm embedded flash product is expected to be sampling in mid-2011, with full automotive qualification in 2013

Rambus has brought out a mobile version of its XDR memory interface which delivers throughput up to 4.3Gbps allowing SOCs capable of 17GBytes per second

IM Flash says it will be in volume production in Q2 2010 on a 25nm process delivering 64Gbit 2 bit-per-cell NAND memories.