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Published Mar.31 2011,09:49 AM (GMT+8)
After the strike of the 9.0 earthquake in Japan Tohoku area on March 11th, at first, there was a rapid spot price increase in the NAND Flash market, in response to the uncertain concern of an upcoming short supply. But because the impacts caused by the earthquake on NAND Flash supply chain were unknown at the time, some NAND Flash suppliers did not change the contract price in the first half of March. Then, the damage to the work in process (WIP) materials at Toshiba and SanDisk’s Yokkaichi plant came out.
Published Mar.23 2011,09:58 AM (GMT+8)
According to DRAMeXchange, a research department of TrendForce, northeast Japan earthquake has led to a shortage in raw material commonly used in the semiconductor industry. Especially, due to suspended production capacity at Shin-Etsu plants in Fukushima and SUMCO plant in Yamagata, the worldwide Raw-Wafer supply was estimated to be reduced by 20 to 25%.
Published Mar.18 2011,18:27 PM (GMT+8)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 hit Tohoku Japan on March 11th. This devastating earthquake has brought changes to the NAND Flash market. However, information on the power and transportation infrastructures damaged by the Earthquake remain incomplete, DRAMeXchange has made some comprehensive assessments based on the available information as following.
Published Mar.16 2011,15:55 PM (GMT+8)
According to DRAMeXchange, a research department of Trendforce, February Notebook shipment has declined 21.8% month over month. Quanta and Compal have fallen behind expectation with a shipment record of 3.2 million units and 2.7 million units respectively. On the other hand, Pegatron February shipment dropped about 50% month over month.
Published Mar.08 2011,16:28 PM (GMT+8)
Apple launched iPad2 on March 2nd, causing distraction in the tablet PC industry and posted a strong entry barrier to the late comers. In the previous six months, tablet PCs powered with Android 3.0 honeycomb were heard all over the news, with manufactures announcing the launch of the new android tablet one after another.
Published Mar.04 2011,09:28 AM (GMT+8)
With the great anticipation, Apple released the next generation iPad (iPad2) on March 2nd along with the announcement of sales in the U.S. on March 11th and rest of worldwide apple stores on March 25th. iPad2 is expected to stir up a strong competition in the 2011 tablet PC market.
Published Mar.02 2011,16:02 PM (GMT+8)
According to DRAMeXchange, a research department of TrendForce Corporation, NB-OEMs (notebook original equipment manufacturers) recalled the flawed products right after Intel announced its flawed chipset in end of January. Intel brought up the B3 version cougar point chipset in the meantime. Thus, we estimated these factors will interrupt its shipment schedule by 2 to 3 weeks.
Published Mar.02 2011,09:06 AM (GMT+8)
According to DRAMeXchange, a research department of TrendForce Corporation, 2H’February DRAM contract price remains steady. DDR3 2GB and 4GB average contract price stayed at $16.5 ($0.88/Gb) and $32($1.84/Gb) respectively. With a surging demand in Smartphone, tablet PC and cloud computing, DRAM vendors are planning on re-allocating the capacity onto mobile DRAM and server-basis memory. The over-supply in commodity DRAM, is thus, alleviated.
Published Feb.24 2011,09:12 AM (GMT+8)
Mobile World Congress, starting on February 14th, 2011 in Barcelona, is the most important event of the worldwide telecommunication industry. We found most of the mobile and system vendors announced their new generation mobile devices during the show. The launches of both new tablet PC and 4G/LTE Smartphone are tightly scheduled throughout the year.
Published Feb.18 2011,09:09 AM (GMT+8)
1H’ February NAND Flash market was influenced by the Chinese New Year holiday. Many downstream buyers itemized inventory after the long holiday, 1H’ February NAND Flash contract price remained mostly leveled.