{"id":18643,"date":"2026-04-07T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-memory-giants-seen-grabbing-market-share-on-lower-prices-more-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:33:22","slug":"chinese-memory-giants-seen-grabbing-market-share-on-lower-prices-more-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-memory-giants-seen-grabbing-market-share-on-lower-prices-more-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese memory giants seen grabbing market share on lower prices, more capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As the global memory industry rides an unprecedented &ldquo;super cycle&rdquo; fuelled by AI demand, China&rsquo;s leading memory chipmakers are leveraging lower pricing and expanding production to capture a bigger market share, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;Chinese manufacturers often enjoy a price advantage of more than 15 per cent for products of the same specifications, which is highly attractive to the price-sensitive general-purpose server and consumer markets,&rdquo; said Arisa Liu, chief director and research fellow at Taiwan Industry Economics Services, a unit of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the same time, the price gap between Chinese-made memory and global benchmarks was narrowing, according to MS Hwang, a research analyst at Counterpoint Research. Chinese players were gaining market share not necessarily through lower pricing, but &ldquo;because they have the volume that others lack&rdquo;, he added.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Leading Chinese memory producers Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) are working on boosting capacity this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"methode-html-wrapper oembed-wrapper e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"c1 e2gky7d0 e1drg7e30 e1ciypty0 ehdmpxk0 css-1rjvisk e1hpd36k0\" data-qa=\"Component-SCMPYoutubeVideoContainer\" readability=\"6\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContainer\" class=\"css-addkwx e1o401186\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContentContainer\" class=\"css-15zduaa e1o401187\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContentFloatContainer\" class=\"css-7nqkgi e1o401183\" readability=\"6\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContentDataContainer\" class=\"css-1pcpmhl e1o401180\" readability=\"7\">\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">01:46<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">AI rush turns everyday data storage into &lsquo;digital gold&rsquo; for Hong Kong consumers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e1hpd36k1 css-1w4b7vg e1x11wau0\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-VideoTitleContainer\" readability=\"7\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 25\" fill=\"none\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-StyledVideoRecorder\" class=\"css-1nnwg93 e1x11wau1\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M22 6.22926V18.4315L17.5463 13.9868V17.8655C17.5463 18.1618 17.4383 18.4248 17.2228 18.6531C17.0067 18.8829 16.7498 18.9967 16.4537 18.9967H3.13414C2.80989 18.9967 2.53968 18.8829 2.32425 18.6531C2.10808 18.4248 2 18.1618 2 17.8655V6.79519C2 6.49893 2.10808 6.23665 2.32425 6.00688C2.53968 5.77858 2.80989 5.66333 3.13414 5.66333H16.4537C16.7498 5.66333 17.0067 5.77858 17.2228 6.00688C17.4383 6.23665 17.5463 6.49893 17.5463 6.79519V10.674L22 6.22926Z\" fill=\"#001246\"><\/path><\/svg>\n<p>AI rush turns everyday data storage into &lsquo;digital gold&rsquo; for Hong Kong consumers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">YMTC was set to start mass production of cutting&#8209;edge NAND products at a new production line in Wuhan, Hubei province, in the second half of 2026, according to a report by South Korean media outlet ChosunBiz last week. YMTC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With the expansion, YMTC was expected to overtake SK Hynix of South Korea and US-based Micron Technology to become the world&rsquo;s third-largest NAND maker after Japan&rsquo;s Kioxia and South Korea&rsquo;s Samsung Electronics, the report said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Chinese memory giants seen grabbing market share on lower prices, more capacity<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the global memory industry rides an unprecedented &ldquo;super cycle&rdquo; fuelled by AI demand, China&rsquo;s leading memory chipmakers are leveraging lower pricing and expanding production to capture a bigger market share, according to analysts. &ldquo;Chinese manufacturers often enjoy a price advantage of more than 15 per cent for products of the same specifications, which is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-memory-giants-seen-grabbing-market-share-on-lower-prices-more-capacity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Chinese memory giants seen grabbing market share on lower prices, more capacity&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}