TMC may hold onto No. 1 rank with 34.4pc share

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced the establishment of Taiwan Memory Corp. (TMC).

DRAMeXchange believes that if the entire Taiwan DRAM vendors’capacities are taken into account, and the 5X manufacturing process is utilized, the worldwide market share of TMC will reach 34.4 percent.

2009 DRAM capacity ranking, by monthly average wafer starts

Note: capacity of 12" equiv., K units