Source : TGdailyNot knowing how to survive the never-ending fall of the price of memory chips, the majority of the manufacturer decided to stop their expensive production lines.
Since last September, the production has thus dropped by 22%. It seems that this bet proved to be the good for the manufacturers who have found a balance. The price of the NAND MLC flash memory intended for USB keys, mp3 playerss or SSD disks have risen by 3% in one week. Certain long term contracts foresee the value of the chips increasing by 7 to 30%.
The market of the random access memory also seems to follow the same way with a quivering rise of 1 to 3%.
But as we said there is little these industries can do: since it is difficult to keep these production lines halted for a long time since they certainly are not fully paid off. As soon as the first one cracks, the others will follow and this will cause a fall of the prices again.
