To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (15400 ) 10/8/2000 12:19:33 PM From: Ausdauer Read Replies (3) | Respond to Alistair, Thanks for the flash information. Price-wise, the market has leveled off somewhat from last week for 32-Mbyte, 5-V TSOPs . Less expensive product has been bought up, leaving pricing between $36 and $55. Paul Zecher, NECX commodity manager, reports on erratic movement in the flash market. "This week, open market prices have ranged from $28-$55," he says. While the end of the quarter is an excuse for such turbulence in the market, Zecher believes it’s a correction. There is more flash x/s available at the end of this quarter rather as opposed to previous ones, and he says that OEMs are looking to move their flash."Cell phone manufacturers such as Ericsson and Motorola have overestimated how many cell phones are going to be produced this year. Therefore, they overestimated how much flash they need," he reports. He also predicts that Intel is going to release a large quantity of flash from the beginning of next week into the beginning of October.
