If one believes the figures published by DRAMeXchange and compiled by our colleagues from Digitimes, the market for DRAM has increased by 42% in the fourth quarter 2009 to 8.682 billion dollars.

Samsung always first

Samsung is the leading manufacturer of DRAM memory chips, with 31.7% market share, against 35.6% last quarter. Follow Hynix (21.6%), Elpida (19.4%) and Micron (12.2%). The latter two have also seen their incomes grow strongly in the fourth quarter: 63.9% for Elpida and Micron to 50%.

Behind these four giants, which together account for almost 85% of the DRAM market, we found PSC (4.7% market share), Winbond (1.9%) or ProMOS (1%). We note in passing that sales of DDR2 remained higher than DDR3 in the fourth quarter.

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