January 18 news, after more than two years of "downturn", the price of storage products to rise again. The latest industry news claims that SSD prices will rise significantly this quarter, especially for high-volume products, due to the shortage of key flash memory chips.

For the single-side design of M.2280 SSD, four flash memory packaging chips are required, and the increasingly popular capacity of 2TB and 4TB has to be used in the critical 4-die and 8-die packaging.

However, these packaged chips have suddenly fallen into a shortage recently, and SSD manufacturers can not get enough supply, which will naturally reflect in the price.

It may take two to three months for the full impact of the shortage to be felt, but many 2TB and 4TB SSDS are already going up in price.

As for the reason for the shortage, on the one hand, upstream flash memory manufacturers continue to reduce production massively, but also slow the pace of upgrading the process, which is the key to increasing the capacity of flash memory.

On the other hand, many downstream manufacturers have begun to increase flash memory procurement, and Jibond Consulting expects the contract price of 3D flash memory to increase by about 15-20% in the first quarter of this year.

Among them, consumer SSD is accelerating the popularity of PCIe 4.0, and the price is expected to increase by 15-20%, and enterprise flash memory and eMMC/UFS will increase by 18-23%.