Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技), one of Taiwan’s leading dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chipmakers, retained its spot in the second quarter as the fourth-largest DRAM supplier in the world, according to a recently released research report.
In the report, Taipei-based market information advisory firm TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) said Nanya had sales of US$396 million during the April-to-June period, up 2.5 percent from the figure posted in the previous quarter.
That translated to a 3.7 percent share of the global DRAM market, down from a 3.9 percent share seen in the first quarter, but its fourth-place ranking remained unchanged.
Taiwanese chipmakers Winbond Electronics Corp (華邦電子) and Powerchip Technology Corp (力晶) came in fifth and sixth in the second quarter with global market shares of 1.5 percent and 1 percent respectively the TrendForce report said.
In the April-to-June period, Winbond’s sales rose 10.5 percent from the previous quarter to US$166 million, while Powerchip’s revenue grew 20.2 percent quarter-on-quarter to US$108 million.
The three Taiwanese firms trailed far behind the world’s top three suppliers, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co and SK Hynix Inc and the US’ Micron Technology Inc, TrendForce’s statistics showed.
In the second quarter, Samsung, the world’s largest DRAM supplier, benefited from an improved yield rate in its 25-nanometer technology and rising contract prices to post US$4.24 billion in sales during the period, up 20.1 percent from the figure seen in the previous quarter.
Its market share rose to 39.1 percent in the second quarter from 35.5 percent in the first quarter.
Hynix gained a 27.4 percent market share in the second quarter, down from 28.2 percent in the first quarter, even though its sales rose 6.2 percent in the quarter to US$2.97 billion.
Micron posted sales of US$2.73 billion in the second quarter, down 2 percent from the previous quarter, and its market share fell to 25.2 percent from 28 percent.
In the second quarter, global DRAM sales rose 9 percent from a quarter earlier to total US$10.8 billion, TrendForce said.
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