DRAM industry will see higher prices per chip this year than in the last three years, says Japan's Elpida Memory.
Elpida will spend US$1 billion on new production lines and transfer chip production technology as fine as 40 nanometers and even 35 nm to its new Taiwanese partner, ProMOS Technologies (so the company can produce DDR3 on behalf of Elpida).
Elpida thinks demand for DRAM in 2010 may still rise 50% while supply will only increase 40%.
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Based on 43nm process technology, the 64Gb NAND flash chip (the highest-density single-die memory device in the world) enters production, reports SanDisk.
Micron will ship in second half 2009 a new higher-density flash memory chip for media players so mobile processors can be relieved of NAND management. 
