Thursday, January 2nd 2020
NAND Flash Prices to Rise up to 40% in 2020
According to the sources over at DigiTimes, NAND flash prices are set to rise by up to 40% in 2020. This report is coming from sources over at memory chipmakers, presumably some of the biggest players like SK Hynix, Micron, and Samsung. If the prediction realizes, consumers will see a significant price jump for products based on NAND flash memory like most of today's solid-state drives. For reference, earlier today we also reported that a minute long power outage at Samsung created damage worth millions of Dollars in DRAM and NAND flash memory.
This incident alone could help contribute to the price rise of NAND memory in 2020. Other possible reasons may include an inefficient supply of materials used by NAND flash production lines or a simple supply-demand ratio, which would hurt prices of NAND flash long-therm. However, we hope that the underlying problems for this predicted price rise can be worked out and that companies like Samsung, which got power outage accident, can supplement the capacity loss during the unplanned turn of events.
Source:
DigiTimes
This incident alone could help contribute to the price rise of NAND memory in 2020. Other possible reasons may include an inefficient supply of materials used by NAND flash production lines or a simple supply-demand ratio, which would hurt prices of NAND flash long-therm. However, we hope that the underlying problems for this predicted price rise can be worked out and that companies like Samsung, which got power outage accident, can supplement the capacity loss during the unplanned turn of events.
31 Comments on NAND Flash Prices to Rise up to 40% in 2020
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So your telling me a manufacturing plant so sensitive to any type of power outage or fluctuations doesn't have a backup power system in place to save the "millions" lost in this "1 minute" power outage....
C'mon and stop supporting these huge companies greed. Memory prices are down to where they should be.
Another thing we might have to expect is one that ties into climate and the state of this world as a whole. We dó keep asking for more on a planet with finite supplies.
This totally cannot be related to the fact that people roll their eyes when their new smartphone comes with less than 128GB storage, while fabs cost billions to build.