Nanya and Winbond begin to ship DRAM for graphics cards
Nanya and Winbond finished the development of 4 Mbit x 32 DDR chips for graphics adapters and started to ship samples to graphics and DRAM makers. Companies plan to launch the volume production closer to the year-end.
Not long ago DRAM chips were shipped for high-end graphics cards via οεν contracts, so standard DRAM makers were not interested much. Nanya and Winbond entered this market, indicating the DRAM maker trend to transit to more expensive DDR production for high-performance cards.
Distributors believe that DRAM developers will suffer most. Currently OEM customers prefer Samsung or Hynix products, so such makers, as Nanya and Winbond compete with developers more. But as Nanya and Winbond have their factories, and developers don´t, they are more fliexible in chip production and can control shipment volumes.
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