Transcend told its distributors that SanDisk and Samsung stopped sending NAND flash chips their way since October, and the storage company is staring down massive shortages for SSDs, memory cards, and USB sticks through the fourth quarter. The supply crunch hit both NAND and DRAM because data centers and cloud providers are hoovering up everything, and chip prices jumped anywhere from 50% to 100% recently.
Anyone hoping to grab storage upgrades or flash-based gear is gonna hit delays and pay more. Transcend warned that deliveries will crawl through the rest of the year, and prices are staying stupid high compared to earlier quarters. The shortage looks like it will keep going at least through the fourth quarter.
Anyone hoping to grab storage upgrades or flash-based gear is gonna hit delays and pay more. Transcend warned that deliveries will crawl through the rest of the year, and prices are staying stupid high compared to earlier quarters. The shortage looks like it will keep going at least through the fourth quarter.
