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Those companies have reported with some celebration a recent upturn in long-depressed prices for commodity memory chips known as DRAM's and have spoken hopefully of an imminent return to growth and profitability.
Weak demand and excess supply have caused prices for commodity memory chips to crash, and many of the former leaders in the field, including most of the Japanese manufacturers who dominated it in the 1980's and 1990's, have given up trying to slash their labor and material costs deeply enough to make them profitable.
Demand for commodity memory chips in particular will star to pick up considerably as corporate PC buying finally begins to pick up.
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But one of the major suppliers of commodity memory, Micron Technology, has some ideas about making memory smarter.
For those who prefer the assured comfort of more stable business models, eschewing the boom and bust of commodity memory cycles, there is Volterra Semiconductor enjoying a big lead in integrated voltage regulators for successively lower voltage microprocessors.
The three companies make up the majority of the market for commodity computer memory chips.
The device may have embedded memory on-chip as well as relying on off-chip commodity memory.
The Boss. [C8.] Toshiba to Exit Commodity Chips Toshiba, the Japanese chip maker, announced that it would exit the commodity memory chip business.
That will happen very, very soon because they use commodity microprocessors and commodity memory.
"Renesas is not suited to compete in a commodity memory business".
He, too, recommends fewer subsidies for commodity crops.
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