Monday, July 22nd 2019
Japan-Korea Trade Spat and Toshiba Blackout Hike DRAM Prices by 20 Percent
Prices of DRAM shot up by 20 percent as Japan put in place export curbs that restrict high-technology exports to South Korea, and as Toshiba recovers from a power blackout that temporarily halted production. This could impact prices of end-user products such as PC memory modules, or consumer electronics, such as smartphones, in the coming weeks, as inventories either dry up, or are marked-up at various stages of the supply-chain. The memory industry is inter-dependent between fabrication and packaging units spread across South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
Memory and flash industry observer DRAMeXchange reported that spot-pricing of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM chips, which is used as a benchmark for DRAM pricing as a whole, closed at USD $3.74 at the end of trading on Friday (19/07). It's up 14.6 percent week-over-week, and 23 percent up pricing as on 5th July. An industry observer who spoke with KBS World notes that the recent hikes are not directly infuenced by the trade-spat between Japan and Korea, but rather a power blackout experienced at a Toshiba DRAM manufacturing facility last month. The observer noted that if the trade-spat affects production at Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix, DRAM prices could "skyrocket."
Source:
KBS World Radio
Memory and flash industry observer DRAMeXchange reported that spot-pricing of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM chips, which is used as a benchmark for DRAM pricing as a whole, closed at USD $3.74 at the end of trading on Friday (19/07). It's up 14.6 percent week-over-week, and 23 percent up pricing as on 5th July. An industry observer who spoke with KBS World notes that the recent hikes are not directly infuenced by the trade-spat between Japan and Korea, but rather a power blackout experienced at a Toshiba DRAM manufacturing facility last month. The observer noted that if the trade-spat affects production at Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix, DRAM prices could "skyrocket."
26 Comments on Japan-Korea Trade Spat and Toshiba Blackout Hike DRAM Prices by 20 Percent
Also an excuse to say "It's not our fault this is happening".
Just exactly how many more of these lame-butt excuses do we have to listen to anyways ?
What a load of B>S>....
www.newegg.ca/team-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820313777?Item=N82E16820313777
at a good price? Just to hold onto them until I do? Cause it going up is probably inevitable.
If anyone thinks that blackout was a pure accident, I got a bridge to sell you!
I kinda want to run and buy some now, but I'll have to hold on a while more...
Good price and you'll probably need it in the future.
What's next for their excuse to raise the prices of DRAM the gradual shift of the Earths magnetic field or perhaps the meteor that flew to close to earth causing a disruption in the space/time continuum
The "blackout" is most likely BS IMO. If there was one, they probably caused it...
Down here, they happened often enough that apartment buildings started buying backup generators. So why couldn't a multi-billion dollar company buy a bunch of generators, just in case? Heck, they probably have more than enough money to have their own power grids with triple backup, perfectly suited to their needs and more, all without making a dent in their profits...
If I were more naive, I'd say they are a bunch of incompetent fools.