Jan 29th,2010------According to DRAMeXchange, 4Q09 revenue has grown 42% due to the hiking DRAM average price and output enhancement, which has shown another progress after 40% revenue growth 3Q09. With the windows 7 launch in end of Oct. and recovering macro-economy, demand in 4Q09 has outperformed our expectation.
Jan 28th 2010-----According to DRAMeXchange, regarding the impact of iPad on the NAND flash industry, Apple currently controls over 20% of the NAND flash demand according to our estimation. Therefore, whenever Apple launches new products, the popularity of the new device may bring forth a capacity crunch to the NAND flash market.
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2010/1/8-----1HJan. NAND Flash avg. contract price partially remains flat and mild 1-6% decline due to the new-year vacation effect and severely cold climate in some northern hemisphere area that some customers’ operation has been impact. Downstream clients’ procurement transaction activities thus have been slow.
2010/1/4--------According to DRAMeXchange, given the outperformed PC sales in Thanksgiving & Christmas, recovering global economy and new launch Windows 7, PC shipment indicates the satisfactory figures that we have adjusted 4Q09 NB shipment QoQ from 8.7% to 11.9% while 2009 overall NB shipment will be up 23.5% YoY to 160M units.