Elpida, Toshiba fall into stock crisis, Kingston reaches out

According to industry sources, Kingston is preparing to pull up upstream partners Elpida and Toshiba to rescue them from the crisis of severe in-memory particle inventories. The method is large-scale procurement.

In addition, Hynix is ​​also one of the particle suppliers of Kingston memory, which also intends to increase procurement to help them overcome the difficulties.

According to a commentator, 2011 was a very difficult year for memory granule makers (they did not seem to have been easy in years), and many of them faced severe cash shortages and had to find a way to seek funds. As a "grasshopper on a rope," Kingston obviously can't sit idly by, but it is still unclear to what extent Kingston's purchase scale will be expanded, and how to digest it.

Relevant news, due to the reduction of supplier's production capacity, the spot price of DRAM memory particles rebounded slightly recently, but the previous 2Gb quotation was once forced to 0.60 US dollars, which is almost the lowest record in history. The quotations of NAND flash memory particles have been declining due to seasonal reasons, but the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year is expected to drive market demand in January next year.