Friday, April 11th 2008
TwinMOS to Shutter Business Due to Dropping DRAM Pricing
Taiwan-based TwinMOS Technologies, the memory manufacturer that became popular with its DDR memories equipped with the legendary Winbond BH-5 chips, is reportedly to close down its business on April 15th. According to DigiTimes, TwinMOS has searched for opportunities towards acquisition and has tried to reorganize its operational structure, however, the continuing DRAM price drops are forcing the company to shut down the business. Most of TwinMOS' employees have already switched to work for NAND Flash module maker Silicon-Power Computer. Although the scale of investment to establish a memory module plant is not huge, ongoing operational upkeep needs large amounts of cash. With the DRAM industry in a slump, the battle is on to see how many more companies fall, commented industry watchers.
Source:
DigiTimes
25 Comments on TwinMOS to Shutter Business Due to Dropping DRAM Pricing
Or what DaedalusHelios said :p
Thats what journalists do. Are you saying we should expect malware to write an editorial about every piece of news? :roll:
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On topic; I wasn't aware Twinmos was doing bad.
Because he made a comment that then received 5 reactionary members hitting the guy on the head. I've no idea who lostswede is, but quite honestly, one criticism is enough without the whole team ganging up against the guy. Actually, the responses written by some of us old timers is itself against the TPU posting standards we set outselves. And if we disagree with lostswede, thats fine, but we shouldnt start a personal attack. And I find that "crediting" the gang behaviour with thanks rather narcistic.
Regarding the CTL C+P comment, I think TPU news should differentiate between copy+paste and actual editorial. I DO RECOMMEND putting copy+paste in "quote /quote" s. Why not design a news quote system like we have for forum quote, code snippet, etc. It would solve the problem once and for all.
I've been reporting news for you for at least 3 years, every day. I'm not William Shakespeare, I don't have the time to write 10 or more news stories a day and write them as everyone here wants to. If you can, please...I'll stop writing. It's a lot easier to say "I don't like your writings" with 31 posts, isn't it?
P.S. Let me just say, that besides looking at the site' mail, my personal mail (overall above 100 mails a day), I have to check every news site I know, define which news you'll like, sometimes write between 12-15 posts a day, and above this all I'm a human being, I'm a student, I have a job and have to go to work every day, I'm editor of the biggest computer magazine in my country, plus I have a personal life...and last but not least there's no one besides me to help with writing or whatsoever. You want me to come every day with a genius news post for you, this can't be done my friend...sorry.
www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20080409PD204.html
out of curiousity im wondering if this story is related to twinMOS shutting down, the last time i recall a memory price jump was when a significant number of ram companies all went out of business about five years ago.
on another note, post irrelevent posts in another thread not the news threads so i and many others dont have to scroll past a bunch of posts just to get back onto the OP's TOPIC ..
kthx.
If you dont like it then dont read it, if you dont have anything good to say then dont say anything at all unless its in the nonsense part of the forum where your posts officially dont count.
still runs almost the same, cept now my pc boots like crazy :roll:
ive had no personal experiance with twinMOS, but hope that the likes of elixer and other shoddy makers go oob soon haha
if u were sticking to good brands then this isnt really relevant news unless it affects the competition, making the good brands pricier
cheap ram + overclockable cheap ram = :rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout:
im happy tho to hear that someone has had a good run with elixer, my business sells it from time to time and maybe its not so bad to sell if the failure rate of it is less so then what i thought.
I had been Ex- TwinMOS employee,
TwinMOS says that they had just closed down there taipei office,but there shinchu factory and other overseas office will be functional, There is no official news of TwinMOS close down, This News crop up thru some angry ex-employees. wait for the right time for exact news
Pankaj
I am still TwinMOS Employee. I am working in Middle East branch; still we are selling Twin MOS Products & giving warranty.