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Samsung Exec Pleads Guilty in DRAM Case

The ongoing investigation into price fixing in the market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has chalked up another victory, as Young Hwan Park, president of Samsung’s U.S. subsidiary pleads guilty to violations of the Sherman antitrust act for having conspired to fix prices and eliminate competition in the DRAM market.

To date, 18 individuals and four companies have been charges in the U.S. Department of Justice’s probe into the DRAM market. So far, more than $730 million in criminal fines have been assessed in the case, making it the second-largest price-fixing case in U.S. history.  Read more...

DOJ Subpoenas AMD, Nvidia in Graphics Probe

The United States Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to graphics developer Nvidia and chipmaker AMD—which just completed its acquisition of graphics powerhouse ATI—as part of an investigation into possible antitrust violations in the graphics card and graphics processing markets. No specific charges have been made against either developer, and both companies (AMD; Nvidia) have pledged to cooperate with the DOJ’s investigation.

The Department of Justice has been tight-lipped about what exactly it’s investigating in the graphics industry, but speculation has centered on allegations of price-fixing. The DOJ has already charged several manufacturers—including Samsung, Hynix, Elpida, and Infineon—of colluding to artificially set the prices for DRAM memory, and the department recently opened a similar investigation of SRAM (static RAM) manufacturers, although the SRAM market is much smaller than that for DRAM.  Read more...

Elpida Develops 1GB DDR2 Memory At 800MHz

The device surpassed the maximum speed currently available for high-end server applications — the DDR2-667 specification which is currently under consideration by JEDEC.

The device uses high-performance transistors with 100 nm process technology, and also has an optimized layout design that reduces speed bottlenecks on the signal and data paths in the memory array and peripherals — this allows for 800 Mbps operation even in a high-density, 1 Gigabit device. These advancements in process and design allow Elpida to create a device that matches the high-speed, high-density, low-power requirements demanded by performance-driven markets.  Read more...

Elpida Begins Production Of DDR2

Japan’s leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it will begin mass production of DDR2 SDRAM using advanced 0.10-micron process technology in August 2004.Elpida Memory’s first products slated for manufacturing utilizing 0.10-micron process technology include high-performance, high-density DRAM products such as DDR2-533 and DDR2-667.

“Elpida strives to offer the industry stable production of high-performance DRAM products,” said Yukio Sakamoto, president of Elpida Memory. “Our ability to mass manufacture 0.10-micron DRAM enables us to meet increased demand for advanced DDR2 SDRAM as the industry transitions from DDR to DDR2 architecture.”

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Elpida Expands DRAM For Consumer Devices

From Elpida’s press release:

Elpida Memory, Inc (Elpida), Japan’s leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it now offers an expanded line of 0.11-micron, high-speed consumer DRAM devices for use in digital consumer applications. The devices are offered in 64 Megabit, 128 Megabit and 256 Megabit densities with 16-bit and 32-bit organizations and are available in TSOP, FBGA and Low-Profile Quad Flat Packages (LQFP) to satisfy growing market demand for memory products in multiple density and package options. The devices target digital consumer electronics applications that are now using DRAM for the first time, or that have a need for higher density DRAM than ever before. These applications include digital cameras, digital TVs, hard disk drive (HDD) recorders and personal video recorders.  Read more...

Elpida Announces 1GB Notebook DDR Module

From Elpida’s press release:

Elpida Memory, Inc (Elpida), Japan’s leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it has shipped the first 1 Gigabyte DDR2 small-outline dual in-line memory module (SO-DIMM) that brings low-power, high-density, high-performance and small form-factor benefits to notebook PC applications. Separately, Elpida has also shipped samples of its 256 Megabit DDR2 SDRAM device that will be utilized in server and desktop applications requiring lower density modules. Elpida’s extensive DDR2 product line will be displayed this week at the Intel Developer Forum, February 17-19, 2004.  Read more...

Elpida Announces Highest Density Server RAM

From Elpida’s news release:

The 2 Gigabyte modules are the highest density available for the server market, and they offer high-speed performance with a data transfer rate of 4.3 Gigabytes per second (PC2-4300). Elpida’s newly developed stacked BGA (sBGA) technology creates a slim module (4.8 millimeter thickness) that increases air flow space between modules, thus improving thermal performance and reliability for server applications.  Read more...

More Sony PS3 info leaked

In the ongoing quest to guess what’s going to go inside the PlayStation 3, the most useful sources of information so far (aside from Sony’s own rumblings about the Cell microprocessor) have been the companies contracted to make memory chips for the console.

Once again this week the memory manufacturers appear to have done a convincing leaky sieve impression, with strong rumours suggesting that they have revealed the amount of RAM which the PS3 will boast, and giving an idea of what volume of consoles Sony hopes to manufacture in the first year.  Read more...

PS3 production schedule details emerge

Earlier this year, Elpida was officially named as the memory supplier for the PS3, with the company set to supply memory architecture based on the Rambus XDR DRAM technologies. The same brand of memory will also be used on other Cell based broadband devices.

Both Elpida and Toshiba, which is also to manufacture XDR DRAM chips, will be beginning initial production in late 2004, and will ramp up to full production in early 2005. It’s likely that the vast bulk of Elpida’s output will be destined for PlayStation 3.  Read more...

Sony confirms RAM supplier for PS3

Japanese firm Elpida is a subsidiary of NEC and Hitachi, and specialises (as the name suggests) in various RAM technologies. The chips it will be supply for Sony are based on the Rambus Yellowstone technology.

The high speed Yellowstone interface will connect the console’s core memory with the Cell processor cluster, which will in turn be connected up to the graphics chip (though to be an evolution of the PS2’s Graphics Synthesizer (GS)) using another Rambus technology – the ultra high-speed Redwood interface.  Read more...

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