Slow demand again dragged overall price trends for both DRAM and NAND flash at the spot market this week (July 25-29).
Although some local traders are expecting that the speculation that a South Korea-based air carrier's cargo plane crash on Thursday (July 28) might stimulate the overall DRAM spot market, since significant amounts of DRAM wafers and modules were reportedly on the plane, the rumors did not bring any catalyst into the local spot market.
As of the noon session of July 29, spot price of branded 2Gb DDR3 was US$1.16, representing a 6% intra-week drop while spot price for white-branded DDR3 also fell 6% to US$0.95.
The NAND flash spot market was also very quiet with limited transactions made due to slow demand. Since some local traders seem to have not yet digested their inventory piled up from March, they are not yet ready for to make procurements.
While Apple's next generation iPhone is reportedly to hit the market in September, the overall NAND flash spot market might rebound  .