SRAM Prices Expected To Creep Up In Long Run, Analysts Say

Both Hitachi and Hyundai, which are also strong in DRAM, said they can leverage their DRAM capacity and technology for SRAM when necessary. "We can transfer know-how from a DRAM process, for example, to SRAM process. So it helps to be in a bunch of memory markets," said Mark D'Arcange...

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Published in:EBN 2001-02 (1248), p.PG.65
Main Author: Murphy, Mary Ann
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Language:English
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Summary:Both Hitachi and Hyundai, which are also strong in DRAM, said they can leverage their DRAM capacity and technology for SRAM when necessary. "We can transfer know-how from a DRAM process, for example, to SRAM process. So it helps to be in a bunch of memory markets," said Mark D'Arcangelo, product manager for system memory at Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc., San Jose. Hyundai has also called on its DRAM technology, which is at 0.18- micron, to push SRAM to that level, [Farhad Tabrizi] said. "A lot of people are still at 0.50- or 0.35-micron," he said, so Hyundai can easily adjust volume based on customer requirements. "We've got the capacity, and if we have the right design wins at customers, [we can] ramp up volume at a moment's notice." For 2001, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., San Jose, plans to manufacture half of its SRAM wafer output on processes that are at 0.15-micron line widths or smaller, according to David Bagby, director of SRAM marketing. "That'll shrink our die sizes and increase our wafer output on 4-Mbit equivalents by 25%, resulting in a bit-growth increase of nearly 90%," he said.
ISSN:1540-2118