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was largely an agrarian country. Today,
South Korea is one of the world’s largest
technology development and manufactur-
ing centers.
DRAM triumvirate
The ruling DRAM market worldwide is
comprised of a triumvirate: Samsung, SK
hynix and Micron, in that order. The others
have posted much smaller revenues, such
as Nanya Technologies of Taiwan.
The picture is slightly different where
NAND (flash) memory is concerned. Sam-
sung is still the leader, but Kloxia of Japan
(formerly Toshiba’s memory business)
holds second place. This market will be
worth $80.34B by 2025, Mordor predicts.
U.S. tank s land at Inchon, Korea on Sep. 15, 1950, one day afer the battle of Inchon billion by the Chinese gov-
began. (U.S. Navy photo)
China’s ambitions
China has been eyeing the memory mar-
ket for at least a decade and the memory
fabs there are not yet supplying memory
for export.
Among the most active are Yangtze Mem-
ory Technologies and ChangXin Memory
Technologies.
NOVEMBER 2022
China is where everyone wants to sell their
products. It is, after all, the world’s largest
semiconductor consumer.
In 2020, China represented 53.7% of
worldwide semiconductor sales or $239.4
billion out of $441.6 billion. Of total chip
sales, imports accounted for 83.38% or
$199.7 billion.
CXMT is among the leading players in China’s memory semicon-
ductor market.
Leading players
ChangXin Memory Tech-
nologies Corp. is located in
Hefei City, Anhu Province,
and Yangtze Memory Tech-
nologies is headquartered
in Wuhan, a city that’s
gained notoriety because
of COVID. CXMT specializes
in DRAM, while YMTC fabri-
cates NAND (flash) chips.
YMTC was funded with 24
ernment, the Hubei Provin-
cial government and the Tsinghua Uni-
group. Tsinghua is majority-owned by the
University of the same name.
As of 2021, according to Wikipedia, YMTC,
which had developed a 64-layer NAND
flash memory, was planning to build a sec-
ond fab at the YMTC site.
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