[Insights] NAND Spot Prices Hold Steady After Hitting $2 Mark, Upward Trend is Subject to Debate

DRAM Spot Market
Major module houses are still holding a fairly high level of inventory, so they are less adhered to the consensus that prices will go up. Currently, their main strategy in the spot market is to have their quotes closely aligned with the quotes in the contract market. Therefore, spot prices are not expected to change significantly before contract prices rise further in November. Even though the overall volume of spot trading remains low, the average prices of items are not fluctuating noticeably. For the mainstream chips (i.e., DDR4 1Gx8 2666MT/s), their average spot rose by 1.46% from US$1.577 last week to US$1.600 this week.

NAND Flash Spot Market

Spot transactions have been ramping up since September under the active inclination of price follow-ups among buyers, though spot prices have slightly mitigated in growth over the past two weeks after arriving at US$2, where some products are seeing a diminishing level of transactions due to the high markup. The continuity of price hikes will require further observations. 512Gb TLC wafer spots have risen by 12.72% this week, arriving at US$2.304.