Market participants and industry analysts give different forecasts on the dynamics of prices for operating memory, which so far does not please the consumer due to a shortage of products. From the pages of the resource DigiTimes head of the Taiwanese manufacturer Powerchip Technology Frank Huang (Frank Huang) said that the shortage of memory chips and its high cost, as a result, will remain for a long period, and this must be prepared.
Manufacturers of memory chips, said, over the past five years have not put into operation additional capacity. The optimization of the loading equipment and production costs continued, but this was mainly due to the development of new technical processes. The leader of the market in the face of Samsung focused on the production of 10-nm chips and the business of issuing memory type NAND, and the DRAM memory remained in the shadows. This market is not so competitive, and it is difficult for newcomers such as Chinese manufacturers to survive on it.
The situation is complicated by the fact that it is unprofitable even now to build new factories for the release of operational memory chips. And technological processes below 20 nm also do not give cost reduction. It turns out that the industry for the release of RAM is at an impasse, and the prices are simply difficult to find the reasons for the decline. The hopes of entering the segment of Chinese memory producers may not be justified.