Factory of the world's second largest memory chip benefit South Korea SK hynix DRAM prices, as well as the market continued to buoyant, last year's fourth quarter earnings record quarterly, continued strong server memory demand this year. Market institutions set bond is expected, despite the smartphone sales than expected, could lead to movement memory convergence for contract price rise by 3% this season, but the season 2 will restart cargo kinetic energy, prices will rise further.
SK hynix held a press conference yesterday and reported last year's results, the fourth quarter of last year and last year's profit for the whole year. In the fourth quarter of last year, the company made a profit. The main reason was a 3% increase in DRAM chip shipments, with an average price increase of 9%. Shipments of NAND chips rose 16%, and the average price rose 4%.
SK hynix forecast, demand grew 20% year on year in the DRAM chip 2018, NAND chip demand will grow by about 40%, and capital spending this year than last year's estimated 10.3 million won, DRAM shipment growth of about 20% this year, NAND shipments to grow about 45%.