Source : Digitimes The crisis concerning memory chips tested the chipmakers hard, it also had an important impact on those which manufacture products equipped with memory, they make bars of RAM, USB keys USB or memory cards. Indeed, their margin also declined as they tried to place their products onto a saturated market. And this is only the beginning. In order to gain a little more money, some the memory suppliers, such as Hynix and Micron have decided to also sell end products. They start with simplest, the memory cards and will supply products inevitably less expensive since there is one less intermediary. If the crisis continues, there is a strong bet that many manufacturers of these products will simply disappear. [translation by crispin]

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