Micron plans to close Shanghai DRAM operations and focus more on NAND memory market. Micron Memory, a USB semiconductor company based out of Boise ID, is reportedly planning to close their Shanghai operations which uses technology resources to develop DRAM technology. I source not willing to comment indicates a lack of talent or “loss of […]
3D NAND was developed in response to the scaling limitations of 2D NAND memory. The layers in 3D NAND were flipped from horizontal to vertical orientation and strings of them were built to form a tower. By changing the direction of how the cells are configured created opportunity to increase storage capacity, reduce size of […]
DRAMeXchange published a market research paper stating that NAND flash memory will continue to flood the market at lower prices. NAND flash memory is primarily used for storing songs, photos and other data on gadget type devices like digital cameras, MP3 players and iPods. The biggest contributing factor on why the market will continue to […]
While forecasting strong sales and profitability in 2008, Silicon Motion projects that demand for low-density NAND flash will beat that for the high-density segment, driven by demand for microSD cards and embedded memory, said company president and CEO Wallace Kou. Silicon Motion guides that annual sales will grow by 25-35% on year with gross margins […]
I was in the CES 2026 press room when SK hynix laid out its next-gen AI memory roadmap Las Vegas always has noise, but the CES press rooms are different. They’re quieter, more technical, and the people in the seats are listening for one thing: what ships, what scales, and what changes procurement decisions six […]
NAND flash feels instant, but it isn’t — and that gap is where the stutters come from. Modern devices feel fast. Phones boot quickly. Files copy in seconds. Apps install while you’re barely paying attention. So it’s easy to assume that the memory underneath it all is operating at nanosecond speeds. Here’s the quiet truth: […]
If you’ve built a PC, upgraded a laptop, or bought an SSD in the last twenty years, chances are you’ve run into the Crucial brand. For a long time, Crucial was the friendly, consumer-facing arm of Micron — a way for one of the world’s biggest memory manufacturers to sell directly to everyday users. So […]
Memory Apocalypse: How the Surge in AI Demand Is Rapidly Driving Up the Cost of PC RAM and SSD Storage The so-called “memory apocalypse” is hitting the PC world like a bad hangover, and it’s showing up everywhere—from empty motherboard aisles to gamers quietly shelving their upgrade plans. Motherboard sales in key markets have fallen […]
A sweeping shortage of DRAM and NAND, driven by AI demand and global supply constraints, is pushing contract prices up by as much as 60% this quarter. Memory-chip pricing is no longer inching upward — it’s jumping. Recent reports indicate that Samsung Electronics has raised contract prices for certain memory chips by up to 60% […]
Micron has introduced two new tech products: a tiny flash storage device for phones and a big memory chip for Nvidia GPUs. Micron, which makes and sells SSDs, created a flash chip that’s super small but packs a punch. It’s like a supercharged version of the standard UFS 4.0 device, only about the size of […]
