Company History

Founded in 2000 by CEO Kevin Lin, DRAMeXchange has quickly risen to become one of the world’s largest memory and flash market intelligence providers.

During the beginning, with e-market trading service and DRAM Market intelligence as the major services, DRAMeXchange’s mission was to become “The Global benchmark of DRAM exchange.” Recognizing the market’s trend, DRAMeXchange subsequently diversified its service portfolio to include the market intelligence of both NAND Flash PC peripherals.

In Jan 2006, DRAMeXchange acquired WitsView, in hoping to further to extend its research scope in the display industry. DRAMeXchange now provides in-depth analysis covering the DRAM, NAND Flash, PC and display sectors. Under the acquisition plan, DRAMeXchange wholly owns WitsView.

The ultimate goal of DRAMeXchange is to promote itself as a company being known for its research and analytical capabilities. It seeks to utilize the most precise standards of statistics in delivering the most reliable and accurate studies of the memory industry.
Furthermore, it hopes to always proactively and responsively offer knowledgeable service to customers, as well as to all users of DRAMeXchange's website.

DRAMeXchange serves more than 60,000 clients (July, 2007), including high level company officers, procurement salespersons, as well as technology firms and the investment community.

DRAMeXchange supports IT industry executives, memory related companies, and the investment communities to make fact-based decisions on memory purchases and business strategy deployments.

Milestones

2000. Apr --- DRAMeXchange to start</br >

2000. June--- DRAMeXchange established</br >

<blockquote>--- Quotation-spot prices/contract prices/Historical prices.</br >
--- E-Market services-Full services of shipping/payment/insurance...</br >
--- Industry update-News/Weekly information /Forum.</blockquote>

2002. Dec --- Launch market intelligence service </br >

2003. Jan --- Market intelligence to market </br >

2004. July--- DRAMeXchange launches Website of Chinese Vision </br >

2006. Jan --- DRAMeXchange Acquires WITSVIEW </br >

2006. Jun --- DRAMeXchange and WitsView launch a conference, entitled" DRAMeXchange Memory & WitsView Forum as part of official event at World’s second largest show “Computex”. </br >

2006. Oct --- DRAMeXchange and WitsView launch a conference at China High Tech Fair. DRAMeXchange hi-tech Summit at China hi-tech fair 2006 was deemed as the most successful memory seminar by the Chinese press.*

Chairman of the Board

Dr. C. L. Liu received his Sc.D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan from 1998 to 2002.
In addition, he serves as Board member and consultant at a number of high tech companies in Taiwan, and is active in educational as well as charitable services on a worldwide basis. His expertise is in the semiconductor area, particularly in the design and manufacturing aspects.

He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Product & Service

DRAMeXchange offers complete arrays of sophisticated services that extend far beyond other market statistics services.

Our portfolio of market intelligence, which includes company deployment roadmaps, worldwide DRAM/NAND Flash supply and demand, PC shipment estimation, as well as historical price data, provides clients with an unrivaled understanding of the memory chip industry.

Pricing and industry information is obtained by intensive cross-referencing with experienced traders and well-trained analysts. We assess the obtained information in order to filter out the meaningful data.

Prices and output for DRAM and NAND Flash will be constantly consolidated and reported with frequent updates three times per day, and weekly, monthly and quarterly bases. DRAMeXchange currently has a more than 51,000 clientele base with members spreading the semiconductor supply chains, renowned consumer brands, as well as security houses, government agencies, and media worldwide.

PC Market Intelligence covers the analysis of two major sectors—Desktop Motherboards and Notebooks. DRAMeXchange offers the most up to date information of the PC industry through its incisive studies, and comprehensive understanding and interaction with relative PC makers. Robust industry analysis models are built to encompass the following five areas:

Global PC Market Scale Forecast.</br >

Taiwan OEM/ODM competition status analysis.<br />

PC product specification and Key component development trend.<br />

Branding operation strategy.<br />

Own Brand marketing strategy.

DRAMeXchange is working on extending our coverage to establish a knowledge-based research firm by utilizing top-notch information that is derived from trading and industry sources. We aim to provide all our privileged members with precise market trend projection and value-added services.

External links

DRAMeXchange

DRAMeXchange China

WitsView

WitsView China