[citation][nom]sykozis[/nom]So, in other words....they've produced enough to allow prices to drop, so they're reducing production so they can attempt to justify price increases again later....[/citation]
you dont get it. supply is so high, and demand is so low, that if production keeps happening, they could create so much there is no way to turn a profit from it.
everyone is right now tring to be the best and the cheapest, and they pushed the price way down.
[citation][nom]bison88[/nom]NAND suppliers getting butt hurt that their product has become essentially a "raw material" and no longer considered to be the more valuable finished product it once was.Instead of pushing emerging markets such as the SSD market by building more Fabs, they're just going to limit those markets by lowering production output to jack up the prices and costs, which have been steadily declining. So instead of doing things to push production, they cut production back and jack up the price and hurt said emerging markets.[/citation]
get me the size in of a chip, the nm process used, gb on the chip, get me all that infromation and i can figure out about how much a gb of ssd space should cost.
ssds are expensive BECAUSE THEY USE SILICON WAFERS, 1 wafer is about 50000$ from beginning to end of the process, at least in the cpu side. this cost can ONLY come down because of
1) changes in the manufacturing process
2) shrinking of the manufacturing process.
intel is building a 450mm plant, this means that in the long run, their chips will get cheaper to make by up to 50%... i forget how much more space there is from a 300mm to a 450mm waffer.
just because they make a crap ton of memory, doesn't mean that it will be cheaper.
[citation][nom]Thunderfox[/nom]You want to make flash more profitable? Build bigger SSD's and make them more affordable. Especially with hard drive prices being what they are right now, there is money to be made from SSD sales. Or does Toshiba only make the crappy slow flash products that are found in most USB drives and such?[/citation]
wrong you want to make it more profitable, you have to make the wafers bigger and shrink the process.