Items tagged with Elpida

by Joel Hruska - Sat, Sep 27, 2014

Apple Expected To Consume 25% Of All DRAM In 2015, Impact Industry Trends

For years, RAM has followed a predictable pattern in the computing industry. New standards debut, with questionable performance gains and at significantly higher costs compared to previous products. As time passes, the new standard is adopted by more and more chipsets and vendors until it becomes dominant. Costs drop... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Fri, Aug 02, 2013

Elpida is Now Micron: Deal Between DRAM Makers Finally Closes

It's a done deal, and just like that, two have become one in the memory universe. Micron and Elpida have just announced the closing of their merger, which has Micron acquiring 100% of Elpida's equity. The deal was initially hammered out in July of 2012, and just now was completed. In a related transaction, Micron also... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 02, 2012

Micron Set to Acquire Elpida for $750 Million Cash, $2.5 Billion Total

Micron Technology, founded in 1978 in Boise, Idaho and one of the state's largest employers, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire struggling Elpida Memory in a deal worth $2.5 billion. Under terms of the agreement, Micron will acquire a 100 percent stake in Elpida in exchange for a lump sum cash... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Sat, Dec 31, 2011

Elpida Memory Sending Next-Gen Memory Product Samples

Two of the major needs of mobile device components are lower power consumption and greater speed. Elpida Memory’s next-gen 4Gb Wide IO Mobile RAM and DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3) are designed to address both of these issues. The Wide IO Mobile RAM boasts 12.8GBps per chip at 200MHz by using the extra-wide x512-bit data width and a purported... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Thu, Jul 14, 2011

With Sale Price Below Cost, RAM Manufacturers Mull Production Cuts

The tendency of DRAM to become cheaper over time is generally considered a good thing—at least, in the consumer market—but evidence suggests prices may have fallen a bit too much. Current manufacturing costs using 40nm technology is about US $1.50 while the selling price for a 2Gb part is currently $1.17 -... Read more...

by Shawn Oliver - Fri, Apr 03, 2009

Elpida Begins Production On 50nm 2Gb Mobile RAM

Remember that 50 nanometer DDR3 SDRAM that Elpida developed late last year? Good news -- production is underway on it. For those of you just dying to get more memory into the netbooks, notebooks and UMPCs of today, Elpida Memory has begun mass producing what it's calling the industry's highest density 2Gb Mobile RAM using 50nm process technology.The... Read more...