DRAM spot market prices for branded 1Gb DDR3 continued trending downward yesterday (October 12) to close at US$1.99 on average.

Current price trends may push spot prices for 1Gb DDR3 chips near US$1 at the end of this year, lower than some Taiwan-based suppliers' manufacturing costs of US$1.50 to US$1.70.

Taiwan's Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories are aggressively migrating to a 50nm process, ahead of their domestic peers. Powerchip Technology, ProMOS Technologies and Rexchip Electronics have migrated to 63nm node with plans to move directly to 40nm-class technology.

Samsung Electronics recently started to use 30nm-class technology for mass production of DDR3 memory, accelerating transition of mainstream production from 1Gb to 2Gb die. The market leader's advance to 30nm-class processing will lower its production cost for 2Gb DDR3 to near US$1 on average, previous reports cited industry sources as indicating.

By: DocMemory
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