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Nikkei News reported on the 23rd that due to the global chip shortage, the price of material procurement has increased, and the increase in demand for PCs driven by working from home has also brought about The support effect also allowed HDD manufacturers to increase HDD prices for the first time in three years. The wholesale price of benchmark products during the July-September period increased by 5% compared with the previous quarter (April-June).
Among them, the price of the 3.5-inch 1TB benchmark product used in desktop computers and other applications from July to September was around US$42.5 each, an increase of 5% from the previous quarter; the 2.5-inch 1TB benchmark product used in notebook computers The price is around US$40 each, also up 5%.
reports pointed out that HDD prices usually gradually decline after they go on sale, especially HDDs for PCs. Due to fierce competition with SSDs, prices will mostly continue to decline for about a year. However, since 2021, the global chip shortage has begun to affect HDDs. market impact. Although the number of chips installed on
HDD is not large, the shortage of driver ICs and analog ICs has led to a rise in purchase prices and rising logistics costs, leading various HDD manufacturers to decide to increase prices. In addition, most of the DRAM installed on HDDs is the old generation DDR3, and the price of DDR3 benchmark products has soared about double since the beginning of this year due to low supply from manufacturers.
According to reports, the world’s major HDD manufacturers include Seagate Technology, Western Digital (WD) and Japan’s Toshiba subsidiary “Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage”, and due to the shortage of HDD chips The situation still shows no signs of resolving in the future, so prices may increase further in the next quarter (October-December). ( article source: MoneyDJ; cover picture: Paixin)
