The Investment On The Semiconductor Memory Industry Is Recovering

Published:2010/12/13 3:25:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The investment on the large-scale device, which was frozen after the Lehman event in 2008, has been recovered by the practitioner of semiconductor industry in this year. The price of the products reduced between 2008 and 2009, and it begins to increase in the first half of this year. Actually, companies may enter a war of attrition in the next year. In the aspect of technology, the competition is becoming fiercer and fiercer, and the development to breakthrough the limit of current memory is becoming more and more active.

Toshiba is establishing the factory of NANA Flash, which indicates the investment on the semiconductor memory is recovering. This project was delayed from the last year, and began to start in July of this year. The capital of this project is offered by Toshiba and SanDisk. The factory will come into use in the summer of next year. With the emergence of the smart phone and tablet computer, the NAND market will increase quickly in the future; therefore, Toshiba decided to establish this factory. The competition of the NAND Flash has entered the 2Xnm craft. The joint-venture company, which is formed by Micron Technology and Intel, is leading the 2Xnm craft of NAND Flash. Although these two companies got foot into the NAND Flash so late, the right strategy makes them get ahead of the other companies.

The profit of DRAM manufacturers appeared to drop between 2008 and 2009. With the improvement of demand and supply, the profit increased in the first half of this year. In this situation, many companies started to expand the capacity, but the price began to reduce in the second half of this year. The main market of the DRAM manufacturer is the personal computer at the present time, which will extend to the smart phone and tablet computer in the future. This tendency is very obvious in this year. The competition of the DRAM is also entering the 3Xnm craft. The related integrated circuit is AD621ARZ.

Reprinted Url Of This Article: http://www.seekic.com/blog/ComputersAndTechnology/2010/12/13/The_Investment_On_The_Semiconductor_Memory_Industry_Is_Recovering.html

Print this Page | Comments | Reading(321)