Global DRAM output grew 4.47% on month to 568.7 million 256Mbit-equivilantent units in August, according to DRAMeXchange. However, the most remarkable change in the market was the 9 percentage point drop in the market share of DDR, which was mirrored by a 8 percentage point gain by DDR2, DRAMeXchange noted.

DRAM makers attributed the positive trend toward DDR2 to the growing maturity of DDR2 yields and the aggressive migration to DDR2 production among memory makers. International chipmakers have been allocating most of their expanded capacity to DDR2 production over the past few weeks in order to meet demand during the traditional hot season. Earlier, memory makers migrated much of their production capacity to NAND flash, which has dragged output for the DDR segment.

SDRAM output enjoyed the largest growth, with the output of 79.41million 256Mbit-equivilantent units up 13.75% sequentially. Industry makers commented that the strong growth is due to seasonality.

By: DocMemory
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