This article was reprinted with permission from Superpower.com.
Last year, the graphics card price increases, we all know that the main reason is that mining caused imbalance between supply and demand, the price was artificially raised, but other factors can not be ignored, because the components are also rising prices in the past two years, in addition to the well-known memory, flash memory chip In addition, the basic components on the PCB such as capacitors, inductors and the like are also rising prices, and the rally is also very ferocious, MLCC ceramic capacitors last year, a one-time price increase of 50%.
Aluminum electrolytic capacitors, solid capacitors have not been much better, and have been increasing prices for the past year. China's largest supplier of aluminum electrolytic capacitors Ai Hua announced a 8% increase in priceOther manufacturers will follow suit one after another. It is expected that this round of upswing will reach 10%, and this year's cumulative price increase is nearly 30%.
Aluminum electrolytic capacitors, rising prices of solid capacitors are due to rising prices of upstream materials. The main reason is that in recent years, China has started to rectify high pollution and high power consumption enterprises. The aluminum industry is the hardest hit area. Many factories have been forced to suspend production for rectification due to the EIA, but the supply of the market has been in short supply. Aluminum foil and other materials account for 20-30% of electrolytic capacitors and solid capacitors. Manufacturers have to follow up prices.
In addition to domestic price increase factors, the influence of Japanese capacitor manufacturers cannot be ignored. This round of capacitor price increases was first brought up by Japanese companies. Japan's capacitor maker Rubicon was caught up by banks to recover debt last year and was forced to change its profit structure. Therefore, withdrawing from the less profitable business, the price of capacitors has increased by 10%. Following Japan's Nichimichi, Nippon Chemi-Con and other companies also followed up the prices, and thus continued to do so.
Other reasons for rising prices include rising labor costs in mainland China, the RMB exchange rate, etc. Since the beginning of price increases, news of price hikes have been heard in different periods. Aluminum capacitors have been decoupled. Solid capacitors have seen similar gains this year. 30%.
How much does the price of solid-state capacitors affect our common motherboards and graphics cards? This seems to have no statistics, and we estimate them ourselves.
1688 can be found on the Internet a lot of solid-state capacitor quotes, the price is not expensive, generally between 0.2-0.5 yuan, in the high-end graphics cards or motherboards generally use 10-20 or more solid capacitors, so the cost is also considered It is between 5-10 dollars.
However, taking into account other price increases are inductors / MLCC capacitors or even PCB material itself, then the accumulated 30% increase is not low, a motherboard or graphics card component costs increase a few dollars are enough for manufacturers to weigh something, Moreover, the PC market Now that the economy is down, the impact of price increases cannot be ignored.
