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AI Demand Expected to Drive Future Surge in DRAM and NAND Flash Prices
The prices of DRAM and NAND flash memory are set to rise dramatically due to the unprecedented demand for AI technologies. According to TrendForce, both industries have seen substantial revenue growth in recent years, a trend that is expected to continue. In 2024, DRAM revenue is predicted to hit $90.7…
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NAND Shortage Could Spell The End of Cheap SSDs
In the last year, SSDs have been very cheap with 2TB NVMe’s as low as £60 making a storage expansion one of the cheapest upgrades you can make for your system, hell even DDR4 is dirt cheap now as well. Unfortunately, if you haven’t taken advantage of these prices you…
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SSD Prices Set to Spike After Western Digital Plant Contamination?
Despite the fact that the vast majority of PC hardware components have become significantly more expensive over the last 18-months, one of the few markets to remain somewhat immune to the difficulties has been storage devices. In fact, SSDs (Solid State Drives) are actually, in many respects, less expensive now…
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Kioxia &Western Digital 6th-Gen 162-layer 3D NAND Announced
Kioxia Corporation and Western Digital Corp., has announced that the companies have developed their sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology. While that may be a bit of a mouthful, it’s certainly something we’ll be seeing a lot of in the coming years. The new design is their highest density and…
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SSD Prices Expected to Drop 10-15% Over the Next 6 Months
If you’ve been keeping an eye on retail prices over the last year, it’ll have undoubtedly come to your attention that SSD storage has become notably less expensive. To give you just one example, I was recently able to purchase a 500GB drive for just £40 which is (roughly speaking)…
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Power Cut at Samsung May Have Ruined Millions Worth of RAM
Samsung is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of memory components. With that in mind, they clearly have a very complex system at their various factories around the world. Hundreds, if not thousands of machines, all working together, to ensure that their products are created to the highest standards. Put…
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Micron is Cutting DRAM and NAND Output to Combat Price Drops
Oversupply Led to Sharp Fall in Pricing After several years of high memory prices, they are finally falling down. So much so that according to Micron, it has lead to over 20% fall in their product’s average sale price (ASP) during the quarter ended February 2019. This of course, directly…
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DRAM Prices Expected to Fall Well Into 2019
DRAM Prices Expected To Continue Downward Trend Over the past couple of weeks, a number of reports have come out about DRAM prices. In the past number of years, prices have slowly been climbing up. However, that may soon change. Due to a combination of low demand and steady supply, prices…
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3D QLC Yields Much Lower Than Predicted
3D QLC Yields Reportedly Holding Back Mass Market Launch As a silicon product, NAND faces the same challenges processors face in terms of shrinking lithographies. In order to get around the imitations, memory firms have developed new techniques. Chief among them is the move to QLC and 3D NAND to…
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Micron Expanding Fabs and Facilities in Virginia
Micron Will Invest $3 Billion Into Virginia Over the past decade, we have seen an impressive uptake for DRAM and NAND memory products. To keep up with demand, all major players have been upgrading their fabs non stop. As part of the IMFT partnership, Micron is a major player in…
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IMFT 3D QLC Yields Lower Than Expected
Intel and Micron Struggling With 3D QLC Yields With the rise of QLC in recent years, NAND is expected to grow cheaper than ever. Along with the developments in 3D NAND, SSD capacity should move along nicely. Unfortunately, every now and then, problems pop up. One such issue is popping…
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NAND Prices Fall and DRAM Prices Projected to Climb Further
Ups and Downs of NAND and DRAM One thing that is reliably certain in the PC market, is that memory and storage prices can vary greatly from period to period. As it currently stands, DRAM prices are high, driving the cost of other components that use it (like graphics cards)…
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Samsung NAND Production Disruptions Could Drive Prices Up
Power Outage Causes Production Disruption As any PC system builder knows, the market volatility of NAND and other memory products means that prices can widely swing up or down whenever the wind blows. A minor setback often means that supply is affected, which in turn increases prices since the demand…
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China Looks Into Possible NAND and DRAM Price-Fixing by Suppliers
China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department is looking into the possibility of NAND price fixing according to the China Daily. The price of NAND has seen a 32% jump this year, with DRAM price surges past half of 2016’s. Suppliers continue to state lack of supply as…
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Ransomware Costs Toshiba 400,000TB of SSD Storage
Ransomware attacks forced Toshiba to cease NAND flash memory production, costing the business the equivalent of 400,000TB in SSD storage. In fact, Toshiba downed tools for up to six weeks following the attack, reports DigiTimes. Subsequently, the production loss could trigger a NAND supply crisis. 400,000TB of SSD Storage Production Lost…
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