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Taiwan Memory Corporation may hold onto its number one ranking with 34.4% of worldwide capacity market share, DRAMeXchange predicts


5 March 2009 Semiconductors

Taipei, March 5th, 2009--- Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced the establishment of Taiwan Memory Corporation (TMC). DRAMeXchange believes if the whole Taiwan DRAM vendors’capacities are taken into account, and the 5X manufacturing process is utilized, the worldwide market share of TMC will reach 34.4%.

2009 DRAM capacity ranking, by monthly average wafer starts
 
 
Rank
Company
Capacity
Market Share
 
 
1
TMC
480
34.4%
 
2
Samsung
390
27.9%
 
3
Hynix
297
21.3%
 
4
Micron
115
8.2%
 
5
Elpida
115
8.2%
 
 
Total
1,397
100.0%
 
Note: capacity of 12" equiv., K units
 
 

 

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