Expected to happen in the second half of this year, mass adoption of DDR2 memory will challenge small and medium DRAM-module houses as well as companies providing SMT-assembling services for DRAM-module vendors. Lawrence Chang, the vice president of Kingmax Semiconductor, the company ranked as the world’s eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, argued that this would speed up consolidation in the DRAM-module industry.
I for one, am not in a hurry to get DDR2, because it’s definitely not a necessity right now. Head over to DigiTimes for the full article.