IC Insights reports that the worldwide IC market is expected to jump 27 per cent this year.
Gartner Research says a minor correction in semiconductor sales is needed in the near future to rebalance chip sales with system sales.
Production of the 4 Gb DDR3 raises the amount of memory for use in servers to 32 GB per module.
Following a strong fourth quarter of 2009, the global DRAM business is set to return to annual revenue growth in 2010, bringing an end to three consecutive years of decline.
DRAM, 32-bit MCU, flash memory among strongest growth segments for 2010.
Shipments will rise to account for more than half of the global DRAM market by the second quarter of 2010, according to research by iSuppli.
Research firm Gartner predicts worldwide semiconductor revenue will fare better than previously expected, thanks to strong PC recovery.
Despite a forecasted 12.9 per cent decrease for 2009, the DRAM market has posted the strongest sequential growth in revenue and pricing in five years.
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Yale University researchers claim to have developed a new DRAM cell using ferroelectric layers that could “significantly increase the technological and market competitiveness for DRAM technology”.
MEN’s (distributed in Australia by Dominion) single board computer F19P is said to be the first Intel CPU board on the market which is based on the CompactPCI PlusIO standard.