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Taipei, December 30, 2008 --- Looking back at 2008, WW DRAM industry has faced severe oversupply and industry structural problems. In 1H08, most 8 inch fabs has switched to non-DRAM productions.
Taipei, December 23, 2008 --- After the DDR2 667Mhz 1Gb chip price plummeted through 1 USD cash cost in October and dropped to vendor’s material cost 0.6 USD, the DRAM vendors could not tolerate the loss any more and cut more and more output.
Taipei, December 10, 2008 --DRAMeXchange estimates Shipment for Low Cost PC in 2009 will reach 22.7M. However, SSD penetration rate in Low Cost PC market dropped from 70% in 1H08, 18% in 2H08 to roughly 10%.
Taipei December 9, 2008 --DRAM chip price still can't fight against the weak spot market demand, although the drop range was smaller than the previous week, further declines may occur. Last week (Dec 2nd to Dec 8th), the DDR2 1Gb eTT chip price dropped from 0.67 USD to 0.61 USD, with the drop range of 9%.
Taipei, December 4, 2008 --- According to DRAMeXchange survey statistics, commodity DRAM contract price dropped 34% and spot price plunged to 52% in Q308. The price difference between contract and spot prices expanded from 0.3% ($2.13 VS $2.12) in Q2 to 14.7% ($2.07 VS $1.76) in Q3.