Samsung SanDisk flash card price war warming 1GB reported $22

According to Taiwan media reports, the global flash card giant Samsung and SanDisk in the United States launched a wave of price war. War is likely to continue until this month, the flash card prices will fall.

According to downstream manufacturers revealed that Apple's iPod Nano players this year, sales are lower than expected, as Apple's main supplier of flash memory, Samsung Electronics flash sales affected. In order to control inventory level, Samsung starts from the end of February to close customer "dumping" of flash memory card.

According to market research firm INSpecturm said that in the SanDisk price action, Samsung Electronics inventory pressure to further increase. It is reported that the end of February, SanDisk 1GB flash memory card retail for $30, almost a price lower than the cost price. According to reports, SanDisk as early as the beginning of January this year, began a price war.

According to SanDisk distributor Zenitron revealed that they did start to cut prices in January, but the price is based on market demand to grasp.

It is reported that from the beginning of March, Samsung Electronics 1GB flash card began to quote a price of $22.

According to INSpecturm data, since the beginning of this year, the spot price of flash memory has fallen by 40%, the largest decline occurred in 4Gb products, for a total of $56%. In early March, the contract price of flash fell by 37%. The agency predicts that by the end of March, the flash prices trend will not change, the price fell 5% to 10%.