The global DRAM industry’s total revenue for 3Q was approximately US$6.566 billion. Due to weak economies worldwide and a severe oversupply situation, DDR3 4GB average contract price fell from US$31 to US$19.5, a decrease of nearly 37%. DRAM makers’ total revenue decreased significantly, by 19.4% QoQ. Besides Samsung Semiconductors, all other DRAM manufacturers reported losses for 3Q. Additionally, DRAM makers actively transitioned to the 30nm-node process and the production of DDR3 4Gb chips. The sufficiency ratio for 1H12 will still be over 15%, which will stimulate capacity cuts or even mergers in the DRAM industry...
Negatively affected by worldwide economic factors, shipment performance for system products such as smartphones and tablet PCs was not as expected in 2Q11...
According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, total revenue for the global DRAM industry in 2Q11 was approximately US$8.1 billion. Although DRAM ASP (average selling price) increased slightly due to expectations of supply disruption from the Japan earthquake, ProMOS’s decrease in wafer start volume and Powerchip’s increase of non-DRAM products caused overall revenue to decrease slightly, 1.9% from 1Q11...
DRAMeXchange expects that the supply bit growth of NAND Flash suppliers in 2011 will be mainly driven by the upgrade of manufacturing process, and 300mm wafer capacity will be increased according to the market demand in order to maintain the balance of NAND Flash market and alleviate the impact of price decline...
According to DRAMeXchange, a research department of Trendforce, despite 30% contract price drop, 1Q11 worldwide DRAM revenue merely declined 4% to US$8.3bn from US$8.6bn due to the 15% output increase...
According to a survey conducted by DRAMeXchange, a research division of Trendforce, in 2011, the shipments of DT are expected to reach 149.7M units, a 2.6% YoY increase; the shipments of notebooks, including netbooks, are expected to reach 215.2M units, a 11% YoY increase; the shipments of netbooks are expected to reach 25.9M units, a 22.2% YoY decrease...
According to DRAMeXchange, the research division of Trendforce, despite of 16% QoQ DRAM output increase in 4Q10, DRAM industry revenue still decreased 20% to US$8.64bn from US$10.78bn with the 40% 4Q10 DRAM contract price decline...
DRAMeXchange expects NAND Flash supply bit growth in 2011 still to be mainly relied on node technology migration, and suppliers will depend on the real market demand to commence the new 300mm wafer capacity expansion for the purpose of maintaining more balanced market and easing the impact from price erosion to the profitability...