14 DAY TRIAL // It's been two months, almost three, since SK Hynix suffered a fire at one of its memory manufacturing plants in China, but even now things haven't been redressed.
Well, the repairs have mostly been done, but the disruption to RAM supply continues.
In fact, SK Hynix hasn't been able to meet demand, despite increasing production capacity in South Korea.
The fire cut about half of the supply capacity at the China plant, which brought the number of monthly wafers from 130,000 to 65,000.
What does this mean for us? High memory module and kit prices, that's what. SK Hynix provides chips for many brands.
Then again, previous years had memory at very low prices because of a significant oversupply. Now the tables have simply turned.
At least, we can't claim that the price rise was as bad as for HDDs back in 2012.