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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24225)	11/18/1997 10:03:00 AM
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Flash memory prices plunge in Asia By Mark LaPedus TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The plummeting DRAM prices have spilled over into flash memories. Prices for flash chips have dropped by more than 50% since earlier this year, according to Asian industry managers and market sources. ''The volumes for flash memories continues to increase, but the average selling prices (ASPs) continues to drop,'' lamented Miin Wu, president of Taiwan's Macronix International Co. Ltd., a Hsinchu-based supplier of EPROMs, flash memories, and other products. Prices for flash memories will continue to erode this year and next, added a source from Taiwan's Winbond Electronics Corp., a Hsinchu-based supplier of flash memories, SRAMs, and other parts. The price for a 1-Mbit flash memory has fallen to just below $2.00 in recent days, from about $2.60 or so earlier this year, several sources said. Meanwhile, a 2-Mbit flash memory part has also fallen by 30% from earlier this year, to about $2.50 right now, sources added. Prices for 4-Mbit parts have dropped from $6.00 earlier this year, to below $4.00 now, while 8-Mbit flash now sells for $5.50 compared to $11.00. Meanwhile, a 16-Mbit part has dropped from $18.00 earlier this year, to $12.00, according to market sources. Like flash memories, the DRAM market has gone south for the winter, as 16-Mbit prices in Taiwan's spot market fell below $3.00 this week, from the mid-$3.00 levels in recent weeks. Prices for a 1-M-by-16 DRAM are going for as low as $2.90 in Taiwan, as memory suppliers are cleaning out their inventories of these older parts, said Donald Floyd, an analyst with ING Barings Taiwan Ltd. in Taipei. OEMs are switching to 4-M-by-4 parts--which run about $3.50 or so on the spot market, Floyd said.