The laws of botched supply and demand forecasting are coming home to roost for the semiconductor industry in 2019 with DRAM average sales price set to fall 42.1 per cent. The latest ladle of doom and gloom was poured onto the sector this morning by Gartner, days after IC Insights delivered its dark prognosis for chip makers …

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow is reportedly meeting Silicon Valley bigwigs today to discuss the placement of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on the US trade ban Entity List. The placement of Huawei and other firms on the Commerce Department's Entity List requires US suppliers to seek permission, which is rarely …

South Korean DRAM and NAND fabber SK Hynix has been developing storage-class memory that will compete with 3D XPoint and which The Register understands is currently under R&D process. The flash fabber first signalled its intentions with a paper presented by company researchers six months ago at the IEEE International Electron …

Micron has begun to supply a "subset" of DRAM to Huawei in the past fortnight after discovering those products are not covered by the sanctions that prevent Chinese firms buying components from US suppliers. Back in May, US President Donald Trump declared a national emergency and signed an executive order to prohibit …

AnalysisIf the US persists with Huawei's inclusion on its tech export block list, the Chinese firm's storage array production could be hit hard, effectively leaving it scrambling for components after the reprieve ends in August. US technology supply to Huawei and about 70 of its affiliates is currently being stomped on by American …

Oversupply is a pain in the collective rear for flash suppliers – a price crash caused market revenues to slump by almost a fifth to $10.792bn in calendar Q1 compared to the prior quarter. Not everyone suffered equally in the quarter, according to the stats compiled by researcher DRAMeXChange: SK Hynix's revenues were down 35. …

Micron's Ballistix Elite brand of DDR4 memory has been overclocked by almost 60 per cent using liquid nitrogen cooling. Overclocking memory increases bandwidth and transfer speed but ramps up its temperature. It's useful when gaming speed is held back by memory bandwidth rather than being gated by CPU or video card speeds. …

As of today, you can now buy a 1TB micro flash card to store massive amounts of pictures and videos on your camera or mobile phone – though it'll set you back a not inconsiderable $449. SanDisk has said its Extreme 1TB microSD card is shipping to customers after being announced in February. The Extreme 1TB card retails for $ …

UpdatedMicron has replaced its U.2 and AIC-format 9200 SSDs with an U.2-only 9300 line, beefing up capacities from 11TB to up to 15.36TB. The 9200 included ECO, PRO and MAX variants for capacity-optimised, read-intensive and mixed workloads, but the ECO model has been scrapped for the 9300. Micron_9300 The 2.5-inch (U.2) 9300 SSD …

Top UK pop-pickers CCS Insight have predicted that smartphone demand will decline 3 per cent this year, the latest in a flurry of gloomy forecasts. CCS revised its earlier forecast down: it reckons 1.8 billion smartphones will shift in 2019 rather than 2 billion, as it thought earlier. Marina Koytcheva, VP of forecasting, …

US chip slinger Micron has said that the end of memory oversupply issues is in sight, and demand for DRAM silicon will begin growing again later this year, especially in the cloud and data centre markets. The company shared the good news on Wednesday as it reported shrinking earnings in its second quarter of fiscal 2019, ended …

The cost of DRAM chips has seen its largest decline in nearly eight years, as global prices fell by nearly 30 per cent. This is according to DRAMeXchange, which estimated that so far this year, the price of contracts between DRAM suppliers and PC manufacturer took an even greater hit than the 25 per cent that had been forecast …

Micron has rejigged its 1100 SATA SSD with denser NAND to produce the new 1300 model. The flash this time around is 96-layer, TLC (3bits/cell) 3D NAND. The 1100 used 32-layer TLC 3D NAND. Both drives are disk drive replacements for notebook and desktop PCs. Like the 1100, the 1300 comes in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB …

MWCMicron and WD's SanDisk both dropped the veil on massive memory cards for your mobile at Barcelona's phone confab this morning: specifically, the little beggars are stuffed with a terabyte of storage. The Idaho storage firm said its c200 1TB microSDXC UHS-I card will be on the market in the "second quarter" – it's only …

An abrupt quarter-on-quarter revenue cliff drop affected all the main flash vendors, except Intel, which saw NAND revenues rise despite falling prices. DRAMeXchange highlighted the sudden revenue reversals everywhere but Intel, supplying these numbers:   Q-on-Q Bit Shipments Q3-Q4 revenue change Q4 revenues ASP Q3 market …

Micron has confirmed it will indeed buy Chipzilla’s interest in their IMFT flash foundry joint-venture based in Lehi, Utah. The intent to do this was first announced by Micron in October last year at an estimated cost of $1.5bn. It means that from the closing date of the transaction Intel will need to have its Optane 3D XPoint …

Taiwanese chip-maker UMC, under legal siege from the US Department of Justice, has reportedly pared down its DRAM project team by nearly one half, signalling victory for rival Micron. There were some 300 or so engineers working on UMC's DRAM project, but the Nikkei Asian Review reported that 140 are to be reassigned, presaging …

The three DRAM suppliers are scaling back production growth as memory demand falters with no sign of recovery. The DRAMeXchange research outfit has said annual DRAM capital expenditure (CAPEX) growth has gone negative for 2019 as Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron respond to weak seasonal demand in the first quarter and beyond. …