Love to play computer games On July 16, it was reported that the price of DRAM memory soared last year. As the largest DRAM memory supplier in the world, Samsung made considerable profits from it. The price of NAND flash memory chips also increased at the same time last year, but NAND flash memory has started to reduce its price, but DRAM memory has not seen a price decline. It is reported that Samsung has restricted DRAM capacity in order to maintain its high profits.

Semiwiki website staff recently attended some semiconductor exhibitions, where they communicated with industry insiders, It was confirmed that Samsung stopped investing in memory, which led to a sharp decline in the short-term shipments of semiconductor equipment suppliers. Among them, the shipments of AMAT Applied Materials will decline by 10-15%, while the shipments of Lam will decline by about 25%.

Previously, some industry insiders had speculated that Samsung was limiting the capacity of memory chips. At present, the memory market is monopolized by Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, whose capacity accounts for 95% of the global industry. In addition, the flash memory market is also monopolized by a few companies such as Samsung, which has made a lot of profits.

Samsung's operating profit in the first quarter of 2018 was 15.6 trillion won (about $14.4 billion), of which the operating profit of the chip business reached 11.6 trillion won (about $10.3 billion), accounting for about 75% of Samsung's total profit.

Previously, it was reported that Samsung's 18nm memory had a low yield problem, which would take two or three months to solve. This would lead to a shortage of high-end server memory. It should be noted that Samsung realized the mass production of 18nm process chips two years ago, but now there is a yield problem, which is obviously impossible.

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