In the past two years, the prices of memory and graphics cards have been high, and SSD solid-state drives are also very unstable. One of the reasons is that the upstream particles have insufficient capacity and supply, and they are extremely unstable.
Although Samsung, Micron, and Hynix are all building new plants and expanding production capacity, they have not reached natural disasters and human resources, and they have suffered from power outages, equipment failures, and fires, and they often appear when prices have just become stable. It's nothing to do.
To say that these manufacturers do not work hard, such as Micron, this week in Singapore began construction of the local third NAND flash memory factory.
Micron previously had two flash memory factories in Singapore, namely Fab 10N and Fab 10X. The new plant will be a three-phase project covering an area of 165,000 square meters. It will be completed before and after 2019, 2019 The fourth quarter went into production.
Micron did not announce the specific type of flash memory and production capacity of the new plant, but it should be the next generation of existing 64-layer stacked flash memory.
Micron also announced that it will expand its R&D scale in Singapore. The total number of local employees is expected to increase from 7,500 to over 10,000.
With the successive start-up of Samsung and Micron's new factories around the world, the price of future SSD solid-state drives should not fluctuate too much.