and Elpida Memory announced that they have signed final contracts for a strategic technology partnership on joint development of memory chips (DRAMs). Based on Qimonda’s with Buried Wordline technology and Elpida’s advanced stack capacitor technology, the...

are estimated at about $6.45 billion, down from $10.7 billion last year. The ranking still lists Samsung on top, but the company’s sales declined by about 36% to $1.9 billion. Hynix (-41%, down to $1.2 billion) follows in second, and Elpida (-31%, 830 million)...