With the crazy price hikes in memory, Samsung made a big profit last year and its profit and revenue hit a new record for a while. However, the troubles they followed also followed.
According to the Securities Times, at present, the global memory market is monopolized by the international giants Samsung, Hynix and Micron. The total memory market share of the three companies together exceeds 90%. In the first half of this year, the memory prices did not show any downward trend.
As the exchange rate continues to rise, raw materials and labor costs continued to rise, the world's largest resistance maker Guoda recently raised resistance prices, and this is also seen as a signal of memory continues to rise, while the memory prices continue to rise, the domestic terminal manufacturers The cost pressure suddenly increased.
Mentioned in the report, National Development and Reform Commission will continue to interview Samsung, because the current oligopolistic memory market pattern has been formed, the downstream manufacturers the right to speak is not large, so it formed a certain sense of the monopoly, so keep going to the interview is necessary.
In addition, some sources also revealed to the Securities Times, because Samsung accounted for more than 40% of global memory capacity, the NDRC now suspect that Samsung has some control over the memory capacity if Samsung said that their memory out of stock, the outside world is unable to know Samsung Is it really out of stock or fake out of stock because it is possible to deliberately slow down the growth rate of production capacity, which is more likely to get huge profits in the process of price increases, after all, monopoly effect of the three vendors in the memory market is too concentrated
Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of China Mobile Alliance, said it is still too early to predict what further measures the SDB will take on Samsung. However, if Samsung is found to be involved in price manipulation, the NDRC may refer to penalties imposed by other countries in this regard.
