South Korea’s trade ministry data shows its DRAM chip exports fell 24.7% YoY in August 2022, the biggest drop since 2019, indicating a deepening slump in demand (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

Reuters:
SK Hynix warns memory chip demand faces an “unprecedented deterioration” and reports Q3 2022 operating profit fell 60% YoY to ~$1.16B amid soaring inflation  —  South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS) warned on Wednesday of an “unprecedented deterioration” in memory chip demand …

Will Feuer / Wall Street Journal:
Citing a weakened market, Micron says wafer production for DRAM and NAND memory chips will be down about 20% over the past quarter; Micron’s stock fall 5%+  —  Company cites market conditions for softening demand  —  Micron MU -5.04%decrease; red down pointing triangle Technology Inc …

Che Pan / South China Morning Post:
A profile of YMTC, China’s top memory chip maker that could end up in the crosshairs of US sanctions; YMTC had 1% share of the global memory chip market in 2020  —  A few months before the US-China trade war started in July 2018, local media coverage of President Xi Jinping was focused …

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
SIA data: global semiconductor sales declined 3% YoY in September, the first drop since early 2020; South Korean chip manufacturing dropped by 3.5% YoY  —  Global chip sales contracted for the first time since early 2020, in a blow to South Korea’s economy which is highly geared to the industry …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.