News How Low Can SSD Prices Go? TrendForce Expects NAND Price Decline to Continue

[Admin]

TrendForce sees NAND Flash pricing downturn to continue through 2Q23, with no prospect of turnaround until 4Q23.

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[helper800]

I hope that none of these companies go under. The competition is not even high enough as it is to get substantially faster consumer drives than what we had available in 2016 in regards to 4k random reads and writes. We need innovation in the storage industry or it will continue to decline until their next string of "fires," and, "power outages." 🙄

 

[hotaru251]

I hope that none of these companies go under.

not a chance.

only thing that happens is they lose YoY profit. They sell stuff for profit so a lower price doesnt actually hurt as bad as you think.

only unhappy ppl would be stockholders and the higherups who wont get as large of bonus.

 

[thisisaname]

I hope that none of these companies go under. The competition is not even high enough as it is to get substantially faster consumer drives than what we had available in 2016 in regards to 4k random reads and writes. We need innovation in the storage industry or it will continue to decline until their next string of "fires," and, "power outages." 🙄

You missed out floods 🙄

 

[btmedic04]

you mean years of memory makers manipulating the market are finally catching up and biting them in the behind? boo hoo. you reep what you sow

 

[bit_user]

@helper800

only thing that happens is they lose YoY profit. They sell stuff for profit so a lower price doesnt actually hurt as bad as you think.

No, they're actually posting some losses. When you have too much inventory, you end up having to sell at a loss. It works out better than sitting on your inventory and trying to sell it later, because the tech becomes obsolete and what you can charge for it becomes even less. It's a depreciating asset, in other words.

only unhappy ppl would be stockholders and the higherups who wont get as large of bonus.

Have you not read about the layoffs and delayed fab plans?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/micron-delays-euv-ram-to-2025-lays-off-10-of-workforce
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If the damage to the industry is too great, then what happens is there won't be enough production capacity for when the business cycle swings back into the positive territory, and we end up with another round of big price spikes due to supply and demand being out-of-whack in the other direction.

In other words, this is not good for just about anyone other than the few consumers currently in the computer/phone/electronics market.