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The prices of DRAM and flash memory chips, the main semiconductor products of Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, have been falling sharply since early August. Prospects for the semiconductor business look murky in the second half, due to both oversupply and the global economic slowdown.
According to DRAMeXchange, a Taiwanese online chip clearinghouse, on Sunday, the price of a 512Mb memory chip was US$1 in late August, down 11.5 percent from early August. The price of DRAM semiconductor memory chips began falling in early August, despite its steady rise in the April - June build-up to the summer high season.
The flash memory semiconductor chip market has been affected harder. The price of each 16Gb NAND flash memory chip, another key semiconductor product, commonly used as storage devices, was about $3.34 in January -- but fell to $1.9 in late August.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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