Silicon Wafer maker plan 20% price increase for 2018

[WYP]

Component pricing will be affected.



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[Avet]

The market is going crazy. Memory manufacturers are getting away with increased prices. So why wouldn't we all increase our prices and ripoff byers?

Am I getting this wrong? But... Shouldn't manufacturing prices go down as the process evolves and becomes more optimized? Yes there are many contributing factors, but this really smells of artificial price bump.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The market is going crazy. Memory manufacturers are getting away with increased prices. So why wouldn't we all increase our prices and ripoff byers?

Am I getting this wrong? But... Shouldn't manufacturing prices go down as the process evolves and becomes more optimized? Yes there are many contributing factors, but this really smells of artificial price bump.

If memory prices increase then yes companies are going to raise prices as well. That's not ripping off anybody thats just business logic 101.

Prices are high because of shortages. Nothing to do with process nodes. high end memory is in everything nowadays. Iphones alone sell like some ridicoulus 70 million phones a year or whatever it is? That's a lot of memory chips. There's only so many fabs in the world and you can't put them all at 100% capacity in production because that leads to more equipment failures and higher chances of less yields which leads to less chips.. etc.

 

[Avet]

Thing is that you don't get to be as strong as Samsung with just luck turning your way. They manufacture everything. Components for their phones, and everyone other's phones. They have people that have been handpicked, and trained from birth to predict market movements. Prices didn't raise over night. They all have the resources, and could build 10 more factories and meet the demands by now.

But i'll give them thumbs up on their business logic. Let's not invest in more factories to meet market demand, create false shortage, and earn 12x more money by doing nothing.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I don't think you understand how business works or anything else you mentioned works. You also are ill informed if you believe this is all Samsungs fault.