Looking at 1Q22, stock-up activities have slowed down a bit for the semiconductor components used in end products such as PCs, TVs, and smartphones...
Contract prices of PC DRAM and mobile DRAM products have remained constant this March, but transactions involving server DRAM products have seen prices on a slight downward slide...
Global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that growth is gradually tapering off for the demand generated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the stay-at-home economy...
Quarterly contracts for 1Q22 have been mostly finalized. Contract prices of DRAM products on the whole are generally flat...
Buyers were relatively passive during 4Q21, the first quarter for the official initiation of contract prices in a declining cycle...
Regarding the performance of the smartphone market during 2021, device production efforts of smartphone brands were constrained by several factors. First, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to cause disr...
Global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that some Chinese manufacturers for networking devices began procuring small quantities of DRAM components following the Lunar New Year holiday...
As indicated by the survey of global market intelligence firm TrendForce, the reduction interval (quarterly decrement of 7.8%) for the contract prices of February has been predominantly established...
As indicated by the survey of global market intelligence firm TrendForce, there have been no active negotiations in the PC DRAM field during February...
Global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that UMC’s subsidiary foundry HJTC has begun to gradually return to normal operation after a period of suspension...
Manufacturers for end products continued to be affected by the component mismatch problem that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the supply chain. Chip shortages have constrained assembly capacity...
Regarding negotiations for server DRAM contracts, North American CSPs have finished arranging the prices for the first-quarter deals...
Market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that global smartphone production came to 356 million units for 4Q21, showing a QoQ increase of 9.5%...
TrendForce in its analysis of the performance of the enterprise SSD market in 4Q21 finds that server shipments to hyperscalers were already falling from their peak during that period...
No completed quarterly contract transactions have been reported from the server DRAM segment, but there are signs that DRAM suppliers and hyperscalers are close to reaching a consensus on the reasonab...
