This too has been enabled by lower price flash memory (although not a 20 nm flash memory product).
Likewise, net profit margins have been declining country-wide for a decade (see chart), a trend interrupted only by occasional and fortuitous peaks in the price of memory chips, South Korea's most profitable export.
Memory price declines are ceasing, with flat trends persisting for several weeks.
Bernstein puts the compound annual decline at 32% between 2007 and 2011, noting the eerie similarity with the price of computer memory, which has fallen at an annual compound rate of 33.4% since 1974.
Though not personally to blame, Mr Tung also presided over six years of deflation and the sharpest house-price fall in living memory.
As the IPO price looked like a distant memory, it seemed as though the test had failed.
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EMC's chief strategy officer for its Symettrix project, Barry Burke, disputes Sun's claim that consumer devices are driving the drop in flash memory's price.
The HTC has a handsome, sturdier, aluminum body, dual stereo speakers, an excellent camera, better screen resolution than the new Samsung and twice the base memory for the same price.
Due to the lower cost per GB of a 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Archos tablets will offer 250 GB of storage for about the same price as 32 GB of flash memory on a current generation tablet computer.
Earnings from sales of electronics used by the communications and the automotive sectors strengthened despite tough price competition and adverse market conditions for memory products.
Thanks in part to the prevalence of consumer devices that use the chips, the growing supply of cheap flash memory has helped drop its price between 50% and 70% a year, according to Fowler.
In fact, we could be just one supply shock away from a full-blown food crisis that would make the price spikes of 2008 look like a happy memory.
The capital required is huge, the number of firms with deep enough pockets very small, and the memory of the earlier gas-price collapse induced by America's deregulation is fresh.
Japan still produces some exports, such as computer memory chips, that are commodities where price matters immensely and a weaker yen might help.
The third layer uses TLC memory for capacity storage at a much lower price per bit.
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The NAND type of memory sacrifices speed for compactness and a low price.
Consumers always want twice the speed, twice the memory, twice the features and at half the price.
Laptop computers with only flash memory will allow higher storage capacity for a lower price making them more affordable.
At least part of those gains came from price increases that resulted from expectations that the number of large memory producers was going to shrink.
Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty.
When computer memory and processor speed goes up the BLS assumes that the price of the computer goes down because you are getting a better machine even if that computer is still used for browsing on the internet and the machine that it replaced was perfectly fine for the job.
The higher gross margin forecast for mobile flash memory cards and other SanDisk products has resulted in a large increase in our price estimate for SanDisk.
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This means that flash memory devices using this technology could have storage capacities of over 200 GB for the price of 64 GB today, by about 2016.
The biggest threat to the spinning disk is the flash memory, which has many advantages over the spinning disk but is ten times the price on a per-megabyte basis.
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The analyst contends that the steep price declines in DRAMs late in calendar 2010 lead to a quicker industry correction, as rival memory chip makers announced production cuts and pushed out capacity expansion plans.
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The chip relied on a form of memory that would have made putting the processor in a computer too expensive to compete on price with older Pentiums.
The limited camera (a rather basic 5 megapixel autofocus unit with an LED flash) and a paltry 4GB of onboard storage (mitigated by the 8S supporting a MicroSD for memory expansion) point to a device that has been built to carrier specifications and a specific price point.
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