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1 Hour Power Outage at Micron Plant Could Mean Increased DRAM Prices - tech|
| (hx) 07:35 PM CET - Dec,04 2020 | | Semiconductor manufacturing is a risky business. Not only is it heavily capital-intensive, which means that even some state-backed would-be players can fail in pooling together the required resources for an industry break-in; but the entire nature of the manufacturing process is a delicate balance of materials, nearly-endless fabrication, cleanup, and QA testing. Wafer manufacturing can take months between the initial fabrication stages through to the final packaging process; and this means that power outages or material contamination can jeopardize an outrageous number of in-fabrication semiconductors. Recent news as covered by DigiTimes place one of Micron's fabrication plants in Taiwan as being hit with a 1-hour long power outage, which can potentially affect 10% of the entire predictable DRAM supply for the coming months (a power outage affects every step of the manufacturing process). Considering the increased demand for DRAM components due to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated demand for DRAM-inside products such as PCs, DIY DRAM, laptops, and tablets, industry players are now expecting a price hike for DRAM throughout 2021 until this sudden supply constraint is dealt with. As we know, DRAM manufacturers and resellers are a fickle bunch when it comes to increasing prices in even the slightest, dream-like hint of reduced supply. It remains to be seen how much of this 10% DRAM supply is actually salvageable, but projecting from past experience, a price hike seems to be all but guaranteed. |
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last 10 comments: | gx-x | (08:03 PM CET - Dec,04 2020 ) | | well, we wont be buying microns memory then. GPUs are nowhere to be found, so, I don't see a problem. |
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| Tom | (06:30 PM CET - Dec,06 2020 ) | | Supplier mostly for Crucial, Lexar.. who cares... |
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| El_Coyote | (08:30 PM CET - Dec,06 2020 ) | | less product will drive prices up regardless of brandnames on stickers. |
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| gx-x | (12:02 AM CET - Dec,07 2020 ) | not necessarily, there are other competing chip manufacturers and they want to make money too.
just my 2 cents. |
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| Tom | (07:26 PM CET - Dec,08 2020 ) | | I really don't care I got 32GB of the fastest ram around and I don't need an upgrade for a very long time. Sucks to be everyone else if prices do inflate. Memory prices always jump up and down anyway. Should be used to it. |
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| gx-x | (07:46 PM CET - Dec,08 2020 ) | | I doubt that you have 32gb of ddr4 5000+ but regardless, they don't just make RAM, they also make VRAM. Which again, is not important to everyone...And also, it's one of the worst VRAM out there, Samsung, Elpida, Hynix all better than micron's VRAM... |
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