Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com August 21 news, the recent downturn in customer demand for NAND flash memory, CTOnews.com reported earlier, Samsung Electronics had planned to stop its P1 plant in Pyeongze, South Korea, part of the NAND flash memory production equipment, and to suspend the sixth generation of memory chip V-NAND mature process quotation, less than $1.60 (currently about 12 yuan) completely stop shipments.

According to foreign media BusinessKorea, in the case of no obvious improvement in market demand, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are facing a lot of pressure, inventory is still high, considering to continue to reduce production in the second half of the year.

Foreign media said that compared with DRAM, NAND flash memory demand recovery is slow, although with the increase in AI demand, DRAM profit situation has improved, but the demand is not high, is still in "oversupply" state.

Foreign media said that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the two major manufacturers, are planning to manage inventory by reducing the production of NAND flash memory in the second half of the year, so as to avoid the negative impact of unsatisfactory market conditions of NAND flash memory on the recovering DRAM market.

It is reported that inventory in Samsung Electronics' device solutions division, which is responsible for the storage business, increased to 33.69 trillion won at the end of the first half of the year (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 183.61 billion yuan), up from 29.06 trillion won at the end of last year. SK Hynix's inventory at the end of the first half was 16.42 trillion won (currently about 89.489 billion yuan), up 5 per cent from the end of last year.

In a conference call with earnings analysts in the second quarter, Samsung said it would continue to cut production of NAND flash-centric storage semiconductors in the second half of the year, while SK Hynix announced plans to cut NAND flash production by 5% in the second half.

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