Memory

The opening of a 40,000 wafer a month NAND flash memory chip fab in Korea by Hynix next month could be good news for consumers

“We’re working with potential partners in implementing new technologies," Sharon Holt, senior v-p for worldwide sales, licensing and marketing at Rambus, told EW

Spansion has extended its 65nm manufacturing contract with Shanghai foundry SMIC to include 43nm manufacturing

This is purely research as 22nm semiconductor process technology is two generations away in chip manufacturing, the next generation being 32nm

Rambus, the litigious memory interface specialist, has laid off a fifth of its workforce with the aim of saving $17m annually.

“We are seeing SSD interest in a variety of applications where historically hard disk drives have reigned,” said Dean Klein, v-p of memory system development at Micron

Horrible conditions in the NAND flash market have seen Micron Technology's shares sink to their lowest level for 15 years, and Toshiba and SanDisk, take losses, but 3-bit-per-cell and 4-bit-per-cell flash from Toshiba/SanDisk could give them the edge in the market.

A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Theo Claasen retiring from NXP, and SanDisk licensing 3D flash technology to Toshiba, to Intel selling its RFID operation, and Siemens wanting to cut 16,700 jobs...

SanDisk has been working on getting the One-Time-Programmable 3D technology it acquired in 2006 to get it to the stage where commercially viable

Using optical disc production technology developed for DVDs, Pioneer built a disc structure that reduces crosstalk from adjacent layers