Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. has signed a deal with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) to transfer advanced chip-making technology to the Chinese company and outsource some dynamic RAM (DRAM) production, it said Thursday.
Spot prices for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips on the world market fell sharply last week and look set to continue moving downward amid market conditions some observers describe as "crazy."
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Wednesday it has developed a new Rambus DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip that costs 20 per cent less to produce than do current chips.