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Memory spot market remains weak, says inSpectrum
Contributed by inSpectrum [Friday 29 July 2011] Slow demand again dragged overall price trends for both DRAM and NAND flash at the spot market this week (July 25-29), according to inSpectrum. Although some local traders are expecting that the speculation that a South Korea-based air carrier's cargo plane crash on Thursday (July 28) might stimulate the overall DRAM spot market, since significant amounts of DRAM wafers and modules were reportedly on the plane, the rumors did not bring any catalyst into the local spot market, inSpectrum explained. As of the noon session of July 29, spot price of branded 2Gb DDR3 was US$1.16, representing a 6% intra-week drop while spot price for white-branded DDR3 also fell 6% to US$0.95, according to inSpectrum. The NAND flash spot market was also very quiet with limited transactions made due to slow demand. Since some local traders seem to have not yet digested their inventory piled up from March, they are not yet ready for to make procurements, indicated inSpectrum. While Apple's next generation iPhone is reportedly to hit the market in September, the overall NAND flash spot market might rebound in August, the research firm pointed out citing the local market as saying. inSpectrum: 1Gb DRAM spot price, July 25-29, 2011 (US$) | Date | Branded DDR2 | White-brand DDR2 | Branded DDR3 | White-brand DDR3 | 07/25 | 1.07 | 1.01 | 0.88 | 0.60 | 07/26 | 1.07 | 1.00 | 0.87 | 0.59 | 07/27 | 1.07 | 1.00 | 0.85 | 0.58 | 07/28 | 1.07 | 1.00 | 0.85 | 0.58 | 07/29 | 1.07 | 1.00 | 0.85 | 0.58 |
Source: inSpectrum, compiled by Digitimes, July 2011 inSpectrum: 2Gb DDR3 spot price, July 25-29, 2011 (US$) | Date | Branded | White-brand | 07/25 | 1.23 | 1.01 | 07/26 | 1.22 | 1.00 | 07/27 | 1.19 | 0.98 | 07/28 | 1.16 | 0.95 | 07/29 | 1.16 | 0.95 |
Source: inSpectrum, compiled by Digitimes, July 2011 inSpectrum: MLC NAND flash spot price, July 25-29, 2011 (US$) | Date | 16Gb | 32Gb | 07/25 | 3.08 | 3.67 | 07/26 | 3.08 | 3.66 | 07/27 | 3.08 | 3.64 | 07/28 | 3.08 | 3.62 | 07/29 | 3.08 | 3.62 |
Source: inSpectrum, compiled by Digitimes, July 2011 inSpectrum: TLC NAND flash spot price, July 25-29, 2011 (US$) | Date | 32Gb | 64Gb | 07/25 | 3.36 | 6.67 | 07/26 | 3.36 | 6.67 | 07/27 | 3.34 | 6.66 | 07/28 | 3.34 | 6.66 | 07/29 | 3.34 | 6.66 |
Source: inSpectrum, compiled by Digitimes, July 2011
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