Conflicting messages from Samsung and industry analysts surround the spiraling memory chip market this week. Samsung’s president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has said prices of Flash and DRAM chips are likely to stabilize, while some analysts clearly disagree, saying there is little chance of manufacturing improvements overcoming a massive oversupply of the technology. Meanwhile, Samsung plans to embrace higher-density, higher-cost Flash memory and its new DDR3 graphics chips for PC and console gaming.
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Samsung, Analysts Clash Over Memory Market
Posted by: Jay Lyman June 24, 2005 11:36 AMConflicting messages from Samsung and industry analysts surround the spiraling memory chip market this week. Samsung’s president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has said prices of Flash and DRAM chips are likely to stabilize, while some analysts clearly disagree, saying there is little chance of manufacturing improvements overcoming a massive oversupply of the technology. Meanwhile, Samsung plans to embrace higher-density, higher-cost Flash memory and its new DDR3 graphics chips for PC and console gaming.