This year the price of NAND Flash memories was supposed to stabilize and it seems that it has been fulfilled, for now. Now at the Flash Memory Summit, Objective Analysis CEO and semiconductor analyst Jim Handy has said that the market had an oversupply of NAND Flash memory, which would cause prices to decline.
Forecast of sharp fall in the prices of NAND Flash memory for 2019
If the forecast is fulfilled, without a doubt, it will be excellent news for buyers of new equipment that will see benefited with SSD cheaper and being able to opt for larger units. The costs of components for smartphones and other digital devices that use flash memory will also be reduced.
Handy in the prediction assures that the price correction could be unprecedented within the industry, with prices plummeting instead of a simple adjustment as has happened this year. Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of DeepStorage had predicted a 50-60% decline in the price of NAND Flash memory over the next two years.
The fall in prices would be given by the increase in the production of NAND memories that increase at a notorious rate within the industry. Several Chinese manufacturers have entered the NAND Flash memory market, while Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk / WD have upgraded their plants to offer increased capacity in times of severe drive shortages.
We will have between two and three years with an excess supply of this type of memory that will benefit users who will see how they can save some money or expand the capacity and benefits of their systems.
Source: OC3D
A flood is coming in the memory store or a fire ... As always