Japanese electricity companies are temporarily scaling back their involvement with solar projects as solar supply outstrips demand, threatening to wreak havoc in the market, according to EnergyTrend, a division of the Taiwan-based market intelligence firm TrendForce.
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, the world’s top three global memory manufacturers, boosted production capacity in the third quarter to meet Apple’s immense demand for mobile memory as it launched the iPhone 6, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of the Taiwan-based market intelligence firm TrendForce. The reduction in commodity DRAM production caused contract prices to rise, and commodity memory products had the highest margins in the third quarter.