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According to TrendForce’s latest memory spot price trend report, in terms of DRAM, mainstream DDR4 chips largely traded sideways, while DDR3 spot prices continued to rise, partly supported by tight DDR4 availability and higher costs, which have prompted some consumer DRAM buyers to downgrade speci...
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While China’s rare earth export controls continue to draw market attention, another key semiconductor material is also seeing sharp price swings. According to chinastarmarket.cn, citing China’s General Administration of Customs, tungsten hexafluoride (WF₆) hit $149.79 per kilogram in April 202...
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As SK hynix reportedly targets mass production of 375-layer NAND by year-end, according to The Elec, the 400-layer threshold is increasingly seen as a key technical frontier in advanced NAND scaling. Against this backdrop, ET News notes that Samsung began mass producing its 286-layer NAND in Apri...
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While SK hynix had only last week outlined plans to double capacity over the next five years, the memory giant is now signaling an even more aggressive expansion across both DRAM and NAND. According to Nikkei, citing Chairman Chey Tae-won, the company is targeting a threefold increase in wafer outpu...
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According to TrendForce’s latest memory spot price trend report, in terms of DRAM, demand for DDR5 is especially strong, while tight supply and persistently high DDR4 prices are pushing some buyers to downgrade to DDR3—lifting DDR3 prices as well. In the NAND flash segment, spot prices have stab...