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On November 17th, at 11:00 AM Pacific, Jim Handy and Tom Coughlin will share information from the upcoming annual update of their new memory report, now in its eleventh year.

Click HERE to learn more and register.

Those who regularly read The Memory Guy’s blog posts know that I am concerned that today’s boom will result in a collapse sometime in the near future.  With that in mind, my reporting of August’s record-breaking revenue number won’t be treated as a welcome success, but as a good thing to be viewed with some caution.

First the news: The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that August semiconductor revenues, as reported in the WSTS 3MMA number (3-month moving average) were Continue reading “Should We Be Excited About August’s Record-Breaking Semiconductor Market?”

I’m sad to announce Lane Mason’s passing.

Lane was a co-worker both at Objective Analysis and earlier on at Dataquest.  But he was not just a co-worker — he was also a good friend.

Many of the Memory Guy’s readers will remember Lane best for the Memcon conference Continue reading “Honoring Lane Mason”

The Memory Guy would like to wish a happy birthday to his evil twin The SSD Guy, who started posting one year ago.

His 73 posts this year have shown great insight into the SSD business, although I find it bothersome that he has published more posts than I have!

Welcome to “The Memory Guy” the Objective Analysis blog about the world of semiconductor memory chips.

Our goal is to discuss all memory chips, both big and small, that are so prevalent in our electronic accessories.  We hope to do that while keeping things brief, light, understandable, and entertaining.  Technologies we’ll cover include DRAM, NAND flash, SRAM, NOR flash, EPROM, EEPROM, mask ROM, and all other forms of memory.

Continue reading “Welcome to The Memory Guy – A Blog about Memory Chips”