Earlier in May, American electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. made a splash in the energy sector when it revealed a new type of lithium battery packs for home and enterprise applications. Tesla touted its new line of energy storage systems, known as Power Wall, would fundamentally change the way the world uses energy and get the world’s consumption of power down to zero carbon levels.
The latest DRAM module maker ranking by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, reports that the gross sales of the global DRAM module market for 2014 was US$8.8 billion. This amount represented a 21% increase over the 2013 gross sales of US$7.3 billion. This dramatic growth was attributed to the stabilization of prices for PC DRAM and the rise of contract transactions relative to spot trades. The top five module manufacturers remained dominant, accounting for 81% of the 2014 gross sales.