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Digitimes claims that Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology, the world's top 3 memory manufacturers, saw their Q1 2019 revenue drop dramatically. Combined DRAM and Flash revenue was down 18% sequentially and 26% "from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of 2018." The big 3...

SK Hynix has announced that it is building four new memory chip plants that will cost $107 billion. Construction of the plants will begin in 2022 at a 4.5 million square meter site that is south of Seoul. SK Hynix is expected to invest $49 billion into 2 existing plants. Next-generation chips...

During the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, SK Hynix chip designer Dongkyun Kim presented a paper on the company's first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) chip that features 16Gb 6.4Gb/s/pin SDRAM that runs at 1.1V and measures 76.22mm2. SK Hynix uses a 1ynm...

Digitimes Research has compared the revenue from last year to 2018 from the top 3 memory chipmakers; Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology. They have concluded that the combined revenue from those corporations in the 3Q18 saw increases of 8% sequentially and 36% on year. This is...

SK Hynix has announced that the company has developed 16Gb (Gigabits) DDR5 (Double Data Rate 5) DRAM, the industry's first DDR5 to meet the JEDEC standards. The company used the same 1Ynm process that it used to create 8Gb DDR4 DRAM for a competitive edge over the competition. "DDR5 is a...

SK Hynix launched what it claims is the world's first "4D" NAND. The new 96-layer TLC chips have a capacity of 512gb (or 64GB) each, and will go into production this year. They also claim that 1TB SSDs using the company's own controllers and firmware will come out this year, while 1tb chips, QLC...