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Nanya Technology is a Taiwanese memory chipmaker specializing in DRAM, ranking among the few global producers outside Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.
Micron Memory Taiwan's Taoyuan union won strike authorisation with 88.3% of its 2,258 members, seeking 15% of operating profit for employee bonuses. Micron's board now has to decide whether staff get a fixed share of future profits or another discretionary payout.
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SK hynix's Solidigm is adding a contract SSD site in Taiwan, home of the firms that ship over 90% of AI servers, with drives delivered from December. Using a contractor lets it sell into NAND prices eight times last year's without putting fab money on the island.
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A Nanya-backed designer says DRAM hybrid-bonded to the processor belongs between on-die SRAM and HBM for inference. Design fees are almost 40 percent of its first-half revenue, and the first volume program is not booked before 2027.
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TrendForce still has DRAM contract prices climbing 13% to 18% this quarter while supplier inventories sit at historic lows, which makes the slowdown a limit on what PC and phone buyers can pay rather than relief for anyone's hardware budget.
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TrendForce has DDR2 up 55-60% this quarter and another 35-40% next, which multiplies to about 2.1 times, so the cheapest fallback part on the board is repricing faster than most bills of materials get revisited.
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