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According to media sources in Taiwan, China, after a long period of low-pressure atmosphere, the market has gradually become optimistic about memory chips. In addition, the five major storage manufacturers have effectively reduced production, and the price of memory chips is difficult to suppress. The procurement efforts of downstream system manufacturers of memory chips have become more active, and some products are out of stock. Phenomenon. According to feedback from the industry chain, manufacturers including Samsung and Micron are currently willing to increase prices.
Original manufacturers have a strong willingness to increase prices, and analysts say they need to pay attention to future demand.
On December 7, media reported that Western Digital issued a price increase notification letter to customers. In the letter, Midwestern Data stated that the company will review the pricing of hard disk products every week and expects prices to rise in the first half of next year. For flash memory chips, the company expects prices to rise cyclically in the next few quarters. Based on the current quotation, the cumulative increase may be up to 55%.
It is worth noting that at this stage, the industry is optimistic that NAND chip quotations will stop falling and rebound. However, most suppliers currently notify customers individually to adjust their quotations. However, Western Digital directly sent a price increase letter to customers this time, and the expected increase is astonishing. The first shot at a comprehensive price increase in the industry was fired.
The latest financial reports of storage module factory ADATA shows that the company’s consolidated revenue in October was NT$3.791 billion, an increase of 13.43% month-on-month and 39.59% year-on-year. ADATA Chairman Chen Libai recently stated that NAND Flash inventory is expected to be depleted by the end of this year. It is expected that both DRAM and NAND Flash will be in short supply next year.
DRAM manufacturer Nanya believes that it has been observed that the price of DDR5 specification DRAM has begun to rise, and the price of DDR4 has begun to stabilize under the efforts of major manufacturers. It is expected that the prices of DDR4 and DDR3 will have the opportunity to improve slightly in the fourth quarter.
Based on the latest research from Trend Force, although the contract prices of DRAM and NAND Flash have begun to rise from the fourth quarter, the increase may be lower than expected. For DRAM, on the supply side in the fourth quarter, original manufacturers have a clear stance on price increases, and DRAM contract prices are expected to rise by approximately 13% to 18% in the fourth quarter. ; The degree of recovery in demand is not as good as in past peak seasons. Overall, although buyers have demand for stocking up, currently, the server field is still passive in stocking up due to high inventory levels, and the shipment growth of the DRAM industry in the fourth quarter is limited.
In terms of NAND Flash, TrendForce said that at the end of the third quarter, the contract price negotiation direction of NAND Flash has been heading towards stopping the decline or even increasing the price. Looking forward to the fourth quarter, NAND Flash products will increase in volume and price, and it is estimated that the average sales unit price will increase by 13%, and the overall NAND Flash industry revenue is expected to increase by more than 20% month-on-month.
Reposted from: International Electronic Commerce, automatically translated by Google