Japan earthquake raises chip prices

The market price of memory in Dongguan has increased by 5 to 10 yuan. Two memory manufacturers have already lost more than 100,000 seizures caused by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan. It is not only limited to the impact on the supply chain of Japanese companies in Dongguan, but is continuously approaching 1 At the time of the inventory of the month, some private enterprises in Dongguan began to feel the pressure of upstream supply.

In yesterday's Dongguan market, Japan's earthquake caused the supply of chips to make memory prices soar. At the same time, some downstream memory manufacturers began to suffer cost pressures and orders were damaged.

[Market] Memory prices have risen by a maximum of 10 yuan. "The prices have risen too fast, and they are afraid to purchase."

Yesterday, in the Tianyuan Computer City Nancheng shop, many businesses complained to this reporter. A businessman surnamed Zheng said that since the Japanese earthquake, prices of mobile phone memory cards, U-disks, and digital camera memory cards have risen sharply, with an average increase of 5 yuan to 10 yuan.

According to him, the current market price of 4G memory cards has reached about 65 yuan, and the sales price of 8G memory cards is more than 100 yuan. The rapid rise in prices has greatly affected the business of merchants. The business owner surnamed Zheng said that before the price increase, he could sell 5 to 10 U-disks per day. After the earthquake, sometimes he could not sell one.

"The demand for U disk is very large and it is very good to sell, but after the price has gone up, few people will buy it." When talking about the reasons for the price increase, he pointed to the rise in the price of chips brought by the earthquake in Japan. "We all know that chips are imported from Japan. Now many Japanese chip factories have stopped production, and prices have naturally risen."

He expects that after one month, the price of chips will fall, and then the memory card will fall.

[Industry] Chip price pressure pressure or spread to the panel "The impact of Japan's earthquake on Dongguan enterprises has already begun to show." Yin Jianwen, secretary general of the city's electronics industry association, said that most companies' inventory can be maintained for about 1 month, and now it is far from Japan. The earthquake has been for more than half a month. Some companies have begun to feel the pressure of supply.

Yin Jianwen said that due to the suspension of production of Japanese chip factories, chip prices have risen, and some Dongguan companies that produce memory and panels have begun to face upward pressure on costs. According to him, the two memory manufacturing companies in Chang'an and Nancheng, because of the sudden rise in the price of chips, caused the orders originally signed to lose money and had already lost more than 100,000 yuan.

Yin Jianwen said that the pressure of rising chips will continue to be transmitted to the panel industry. He believes that at present, only the rise of the chip triggers the rise of production costs for downstream companies, and large-scale impact will occur in May.