Taiwan's major DRAM makers ProMos & Powerchip reports a slight increase in July revenues from June.
ProMOS Technologies' revenues increased 9% on month while Powerchip Technology and Inotera Memories posted modest sales growth sequentially in the period.
ProMOS's July sales totaled NT$2.325 billion (US$73.096 million), up from NT$2.13 billion in June. The July figure also showed a 173% jump from a year earlier, when revenues dropped 76% on year to NT$853 million.
ProMOS recently introduced its first lot of wafers using Elpida Memory's 63nm (65nm-XS, Super-shrink) DRAM process, and moved the node to volume production earlier in third quarter. The company also revealed plans to allocate almost half of its chip production (one 12-inch fab with capacity of 60,000 wafers a month) to mobile RAM and specialty DRAM (SDRAM) chips starting in 2011, in a move to diversify products.
Powerchip's July sales reached NT$8.62 billion, a 0.7% growth compared to June. The company's accumulated net sales for the first seven months of 2010 were NT$51.13 billion, growing robustly from NT$10.09 billion posted a year ago.
Powerchip has ramped up production using Elpida's 63nm, which is now its major production node, VP and spokesperson Eric Tang said in a statement. Tang noted that the company's growing foundry business also helped offset recent declines of DRAM spot prices.