Prepare to take the shock. Chip Crisis Shortages Vibration to iPhone 18 Pro with $3.8 billion Dump Plan
Prepare to Take the Shocks Chip Shortage Crisis Vibrates to iPhone 18 Pro with SK Hynix's $3.8 Billion Dump Plan
Friends should have been frustrated when they wanted a new gadget in short supply. Now we're going through that problem again on a larger scale because the chip shortage crisis is also haunting the IT industry, and this time it might be targeting Apple's iPhone 18 Pro launch next month.
Take a look at the case of SK Hynix, one of the three giants that makes DRAM and NAND chips. They just announced a huge investment of $3.8 billion to build two new plants, a $2.5 billion DRAM facility, and a $1.35 billion NAND manufacturing facility. This figure reflects that the chip company is trying to speed itself hard to plug leaks in the market.
But if we analyze the timeline he announced, the NAND plant will open in December 2028, and DRAM will have to wait until June 2029 to be able to build the production belt. This means that this huge investment is the solution to the future, but it does not help the crisis we are facing today. SK Hynix himself quoted Omdia as saying that chip demand will grow by an average of 19 percent per year until 2030. And the main goal he decided to invest in is to be a key partner in the global AI supply chain, because who can deliver the most to customers on time is the real winner.
To sum it up, SK Hynix's investment is good for stabilizing its AI infrastructure in the long run, but for us as consumers, we have to accept that new IT products, including the upcoming flagship smartphone, may be hard to buy and limited in numbers for a while. Prepare yourself for market fluctuations.
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