South Korea's computer memory chip makers DRAM market shares surpass 60% for three straight quarters

South Korea's personal computer memory chipmakers saw their global market shares surpass 60 percent for 3 consecutive quarters, taking both the largest and second- largest shares of the global marketplace for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in the very first quarter this year, business information showed Monday.

According to market researcher DRAMeXchange, Samsung Electronics and its home-country rival Hynix Semiconductor had a combined 62.7 percent share of the global DRAM marketplace within the first quarter.

Samsung retained its lead with 39.8 percent share in the first quarter, even though Hynix Semiconductor was the distant runner-up with a 22.9 percent share, DRAMeXchange said.

No. 3 industry player Elpida Memory of Japan claimed 13.five percent of the global DRAM marketplace inside the first quarter, down 4.0 percentage points compared to the very first quarter last year.

The domestic semiconductor industry predicts that South Korean companies' dominance will continue into the second quarter because of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, according to local reports. DRAM chips assist PCs run multiple programs simultaneously.

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