Renctly, the US to Restrict Exports to Chinese Chipmaker Fujian Jinhua and UMC Stops Joint Fujian Jinhua Project. Now, the company has released a statement defending itself against the claim that it stole trade secrets from a U.S. business. According to the Department of Commerce, Fujian Jinhua’s plan to increase DRAM production “threatens the long-term economic viability of…

The United States said on Monday that it would block a Chinese state-owned technology company from buying American components because it posed a national security threat, the latest volley in an escalating dispute between the world’s two largest economies. President Donald Trump has painted China as an economic threat to the United States and American companies and…

Micron Technology Inc. said late Thursday it plans to buy out Intel Corp.’s share of a flash memory joint venture that the two chip makers have participated in for more than a decade. Under the previous agreement, Micron will sell 3D Xpoint memory wafers to Intel for one year after the acquisition. At the end…

In the global NAND flash market, Samsung, Toshiba, Western Digital, Micron, SK Hynix and Intel account for the majority. NAND flash memory is also an important area that China has been catching up with in recent years, especially Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC), which invested US$24 billion in Wuhan to build China’s largest storage…

Samsung Semiconductor recently announced to delay its DRAM production capacity expansion plan. According to the original plan, Samsung will increase its monthly production of 30,000 DRAMs this quarter. The plan is now postponed until the end of this year. According to analysis by supply chain people, DRAM prices will remain stable until end of this…

DRAM supply and demand is so volatile that memory production, prices and availability are often measured separately from other semiconductor products. The electronics industry is currently in the midst of shortages of many critical components. An injunction, which has halted U.S.memory manufacturer Micron Technology from producing certain DRAM and SSD products in China, may press an already squeezed…

Micron Technology plans to appeal a preliminary injunction handed down last week by a Chinese court preventing its Chinese subsidiaries from manufacturing, selling or importing some DRAM modules and solid state drives. The ruling,issued last week by the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court in China’s Fujian Province in response to a patent infringement suit filed by…

A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology Inc. chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world’s largest semiconductor market, Taiwanese rival United Microelectronics Corp. said.In a patent ruling in favor of UMC, the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China issued a preliminary injunction stopping Micron from selling 26 products, including dynamic random access…