(18 quotes found)
“It's very clear, NAND flash saved the DRAM industry from a major collapse. 2005 was not a good year for the DRAM industry, but it could have been a lot worse.”
Andrew Norwood
“Despite the declining ASPs [average selling prices] of DRAM [chips], we continued to be profitable in quarter four.”
Ben Tseng
“We have raised DRAM contract prices in February on strong demand.”
Chu Woosik
“By conspiring to drive up the price of DRAM, Samsung and its co-conspirators forced consumers to pay more for these products,”
Thomas Barnett
“By conspiring to drive up the price of DRAM, Samsung and its co-conspirators forced consumers to pay more for these products.”
“By conspiring to drive up the price of DRAM [chips], Samsung and its co-conspirators forced consumers to pay more for these products.”
“Intel's pre-announcement goes a long way to explaining softness in the DRAM market. PCs consume well over one-half of all DRAMs.”
Drew Peck
“A second-half of the year Vista launch was expected to be a large DRAM demand driver as Vista is expected to increase optimum PC DRAM loading to 2 GB from the current 1 GB. With Vista now delayed until 2007, DRAM demand drivers in the second half of the year could be absent.”
Shekhar Pramanick
“Although demand was about what we expected during the quarter, the average selling prices for our DRAM product line were lower than we planned. DRAM selling prices were under pressure, especially in November and December.”
Jimmy Lee
“When prices in the DRAM market were increasing, competitors talked and agreed on when and by how much the price should go up (sometimes reaching explicit agreement on what price they would start their negotiations with and where they intended to end). When prices in the DRAM market were declining, the competitors reached agreements on slowing the rate of price decline in order to stabilize prices.”
Phillip Warren
