Posted on Thursday, June 21 2018 @ 12:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Industry sources
told DigiTimes that both Samsung and SK Hynix, which together account for roughly 75 percent of global DRAM supply, are suffering from unstable yield rates for their 18nm server DRAM production. In particular, production for high-end server application is hit hard by the issues. The report notes laptop and desktop PC supply, as well as other consumer applications, is seeing fewer issues due to lower production quality requirements.
With Samsung and SK Hynix encountering technical problems with their 18nm DRAM production for servers, the already-tight supply of server DRAMs particularly high-end ones for data center applications will become even tighter, the sources indicated.
US and China-based vendors have already requested their Korea-based memory suppliers to suspend shipments until their 18nm DRAM process yield rates improve, the sources noted. It may take 1-2 months or even longer for the two DRAM firms to improve their 18nm production yield rates, the sources said.
