The willingness to purchase NAND Flash components was relatively low in first half of April due to the module clients’ conservative attitude towards China’s May 1st Holiday sales performances and sufficient inventory levels, according to DRAMeXchange.
The NB shipment for Q1’14 reached 40.5 M units, declining 12% QoQ because of the traditional slow season and the inventory accumulated since Q4 last year that needed to be digested, according to the latest NB shipment survey by WitsView, the display research division of TrendForce. “As all brands roll out new models, the Q2 NB shipment seeks growth in the slow season and is likely to challenge higher-than-3% rise with the strategic distribution,” says Caroline Chen, Witsview’s Assistant Research Manager.