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 Posted: Wed, 4th Sep 2013 14:32 Post subject: Hynix Fabrication Plant Chemical Explosion |
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http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/
Erk.
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World DRAM prices are set to rocket as news comes in that Hynix FABs 1 and 2 have been engulfed in a ball of flame following a huge chemical explosion.
Reports are still coming in, but the effects are immediate – with memory prices already shooting up by 10% in the first hour after reports started.
This is one of the main factories for nVidia GDDR5 we are told, so expect a major issue for the green team with production and pricing. That said, As nVidia begin to switch to other sources, so AMD’s price for Radeon RAM will also jump up.
Hynix makes 30% of the world’s memory in this area, and now it will lose half its production, so world production will drop by 15%.
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Let's hope it's not as bad as it sounds... and that it won't be as bad as the Thailand floods that crippled HDD production and forced prices up (which still haven't come back down to the levels they were at pre-fire)
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Sep 2013 15:03 Post subject: |
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Yes goyim... buy 8 gigs of DDR4 for 300 euro...
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| sabin1981 wrote: | http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/
Erk.
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World DRAM prices are set to rocket as news comes in that Hynix FABs 1 and 2 have been engulfed in a ball of flame following a huge chemical explosion.
Reports are still coming in, but the effects are immediate – with memory prices already shooting up by 10% in the first hour after reports started.
This is one of the main factories for nVidia GDDR5 we are told, so expect a major issue for the green team with production and pricing. That said, As nVidia begin to switch to other sources, so AMD’s price for Radeon RAM will also jump up.
Hynix makes 30% of the world’s memory in this area, and now it will lose half its production, so world production will drop by 15%.
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Let's hope it's not as bad as it sounds... and that it won't be as bad as the Thailand floods that crippled HDD production and forced prices up (which still haven't come back down to the levels they were at pre-fire) |
http://www.zdnet.com/sk-hynix-china-plant-fire-wont-affect-chip-production-7000020281/
indeed not that bad as it sounds
on the other hand, thai tale was pretty mean and "interesting" - the quarter sale results of that period eventually ended up higher than the pre-flood ones ...
sience is a cold-hearted bitch with a 14-inch strap-on
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Sep 2013 21:01 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 6th Sep 2013 15:56 Post subject: |
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| m3th0d2008 wrote: | | Reminds me of the Tsunami tactic. I guess it's a new take on it. Propably called Operation Firesticks and will be hugely profitable. |
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http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/ddr3_pricing_hits_two_year_high.html
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Bloomberg reported o that memory prices hit a two-year high as a result of the fire in SK Hynix' fab in Wuxi, China. Analysts expect chip prices will continue to rise throughout the fourth quarter or that there will be no drop until production capacity returns to normal. The price of the benchmark DDR3 2-gigabit dynamic random-access memory chip reached $2.27 yesterday, compared with $1.60 on Sept. 4, when a fire forced the closing of SK Hynix’s factory in Wuxi, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia’s largest market for the components. Icheon, South Korea-based SK Hynix expects to resume production on the fire-hit line next month.
SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest producer of memory chips with customers including Apple Inc. (AAPL), Dell Inc. (DELL) and Sony Corp. (6758), has boosted production in South Korea to reduce the impact of the fire. The surge in prices may affect smartphone makers as International Data Corp. forecasts that China shipments alone will surge to 450 million units next year from 360 million units this year.
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Even today the prices haven't really been dropping as you'd expect, though they are slowly getting better.
