News Samsung Slashes NAND Output by 50%, Prices to Slowly Edge Higher

[Admin]

NAND manufacturer Samsung is taking measures to stem the decreasing value of memory chips by artificially capping fab output. A 50% reduction for NAND output is in the cards, which should slowly provide supply-pressure for increasing prices.

Samsung Slashes NAND Output by 50%, Prices to Slowly Edge Higher : Read more

 

[ekio]

Wow what a toxic behaviour….
We can’t scam people with huge margins anymore because the demand balanced the prices, let’s make it rare an expensive to fix that.

Samsung products : absolute no from now on!

 

[bit_user]

Wow what a toxic behaviour….
We can’t scam people with huge margins anymore because the demand balanced the prices, let’s make it rare an expensive to fix that.

Samsung products : absolute no from now on!

The article doesn't say if they're actually selling product below cost, but it's certainly plausible. That's unsustainable. You can't realistically expect them to continue producing themselves deeper and deeper into a hole, can you?

I can also tell you this: Samsung isn't alone. All of the NAND flash manufacturers have been cutting production.

Anyway, I did my part. I recently bought one of the last M.2 form factor enterprise drives: Samsung PM9A3 (110 mm):

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PM9A3 | Data center SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global

PM9A3 with PCIe® Gen4 features fast speeds and supports E1.S, U.2, and M.2 form factors. View the new generation of performance for powerful data centers.

semiconductor.samsung.com

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Just make sure your board can handle a 110 mm M.2 drive, as not all motherboards can (the most common length is 80 mm).