芯片缺货涨价潮来袭 - 2017年11月27日

Chinese buyers of electronic devices, who comprise the world’s largest market, can expect to pay more for their favorite gadgets. Game fans and designers looking to upgrade titles already are paying triple the price of earlier this year for two bars of eight gigabytes of memory.
Prices of chips for memory, graphic and central controlling, which are used in computers, TVs, smartphones, home appliances and in the latest model cars, are also expected to jump. In the wider landscape, the wave will finally wash over the whole of China’s innovation-driven economic transformation.
The rising cost contradicts Moore’s Law, an industry axiom that says chip capabilities double each 18 months with a corresponding decrease in prices. The reasons behind the unusual price hike for memory chips are simple: short supply and a high-tech threshold.