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

CTOnews.com November 9 news, according to DigiTimes, the main control manufacturer Phison recently issued a signal predicting that there will be a material shortage in the production of NAND flash chips, which will lead to a rise in SSD prices, which means that the days of low-cost NAND flash memory are coming to an end.

At present, many mainstream PCIe 5.0SSD use group master control, and the company predicts that there will be a shortage of materials. in order to ensure a sufficient supply of NAND chips, a large amount of money has been paid in advance to require chip suppliers to meet their production needs.

The advance itself may increase the cost of NAND chips, while material shortages may lead to a sharp rise in SSD prices.

Demand in the SSD market has been falling since the new crown epidemic, but SSD prices in 2023 are likely to fall at the fastest rate ever. Production has been far higher than demand for too long, and price reduction is the only realistic way to increase demand.

Manufacturers have also been cutting production to reduce supply, but looming material shortages could force supply to shrink further.

This is good news for manufacturers, who have been bleeding heavily in the face of oversupply. Groupon warned in May that too low NAND prices could lead to bankruptcy and that the largest manufacturers had already lost billions of dollars.

CTOnews.com attaches DRAMeXchange chart data here. In recent months, the spot price of silicon wafers used to produce 64 GB gigabit TLC flash chips has increased. The current price is $2304 per chip, 63.3% higher than in June, when the price of such chips was $1411. Spot prices for such chips rose 12.7 per cent last week. As a result, the cost of 1TB TLC flash memory has increased from about $22 to $36.

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