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Ina Fried in News on February 4 at 6:15 pm PT
Memory-chip maker Micron Technology on Saturday named D. Mark Durcan as CEO and Robert E. Switz as chairman, following the death of Steven Appleton, who had long held those positions. Appleton died Friday in a plane crash in Boise. Sales executive Mark W. Adams was named president.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 5 at 3:00 pm PT
The economy, the euro and Thailand have combined into a perfect storm that has caused memory chip inventories to pile up to extreme levels.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 24, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The list of potential suitors is quite long, argues Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, starting with Samsung, and including — maybe — even Dell.
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Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 22, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Elpida Memory Inc. said Wednesday that it has developed a memory chip package that is 20 percent thinner than similar packages on the market, a breakthrough that the company says will help make mobile gadgets thinner while maintaining their memory capacity.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
Damage from the quake and tsunami has cut off chipmakers from one-quarter of the world’s supply of silicon wafers, according to an iSuppli survey. Expect prices on memory chips to soar.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 16, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
While most smartphone owners don’t know–or care–how much DRAM memory is in their phones, the market for such mobile memory chips is booming.
Consumers may get to choose how much flash memory their phones have for storage, but the amount of DRAM–a key contributor to performance–is chosen for them when the device is designed.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 13, 2011 at 7:59 am PT
Like night follows day, an Apple product release is always followed by a bunch of reports by people who live to tear the latest gadgets apart to see what’s inside, and more importantly to investors, to estimate what everything inside them costs. The release of the iPad 2 has been no different.
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Scott Denne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
Many start-ups are developing technology to give data storage a speed boost, mostly by using flash memory, the kind of chip found in mobile devices like smartphones and digital cameras.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
As demand for PCs has slowed, so has demand for the memory chips that go into them. Good news for everyone but the companies that make memory.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 17, 2010 at 8:56 am PT
When 2010 ends, worldwide sales of chips will have grown by their largest single-year increase ever, the market research firm iSuppli says in its latest survey of the global semiconductor market.
