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: Elpida Memory makes DRAMs with headquarters based in Tokyo, Japan, and sales and marketing operations located in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia. Elpida is a joint venture company formed by NEC and Hitachi on 20 December 1999 and has been in operation since April 2000. Elpida Memory was a leading manufacturer of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) integrated circuits. that developed, designed, manufactured and sold dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) products. It was also a semiconductor foundry. With headquarters in Yaesu, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, it was initially formed under the name NEC Hitachi Memory in 1999 by the merger of the Hitachi and NEC DRAM businesses. In the following year it took on the name Elpida. In 2003, Elpida took over the Mitsubishi DRAM business. In 2004, it listed its shares in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.


Elpida Memory, Inc., was one of the world's top producers of DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips, and is the only remaining major DRAM manufacturer based in Japan. Elpida develops DRAMs for the three major market segments: Servers, Personal Computers, and the increasingly important Digital Consumer Electronics & Mobile Devices market. The company's production includes DDR (double data rate) and Rambus-based DRAMs. In 2006, Elpida launched manufacture of the latest-generation DDR-3 DRAMs. The company supports its DRAM business through its E300 wafer facility opened in Hiroshima in 2005. In early 2006, the company opened a dedicated design facility, the Kansai Design Center in Osaka, in order to boost its position in the global DRAM industry. Also in that year, the company launched plans to add a design center in India. The company also operates its own E200 foundry business for the production of SRAMs and other chips, with production facilities extending to Shanghai, China. Elsewhere, Elpida operates sales and distribution subsidiaries in Germany, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States. Formed in 1999 through the merger of the DRAM operations of NEC and Hitachi, Elpida has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2004. Elpida is led by CEO and President Yukio Sakamoto. In 2006, the company posted sales of $2.06 billion.

In 2013, Elpida was acquired by Micron Technology. On February 28, 2014, Elpida changed its name to Micron Memory Japan and Elpida Akita changed its name to Micron Akita, Inc.

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IBS Electronics is an electronic component distributor of interconnect, power and electromechanical products, capacitors, transistors, resistors, diodes, fuses, integrated circuits ICs, plus a diversity electronic, electrical, and electromechanical components and assemblies.

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EDX5116ACSE-3C-E  DRAM 512M 32M*16 3.2G 1.8V FBGA104 3C  ELPIDA  65