The price of SSD continues to decline in recent months. According to the latest news from ChinaFlashMarket, the price of 120GB SSD is reduced by 3.8% to 25 dollars；the price of 240GB is reduced by 4.9% to 39 dollars； the SSD of 480GB is reduced by 5.1% to 72 dollars.
In the end of the second quarter of 2018, the original factories of storage industry chain, master control factories and module factories have issued financial reports. Although the price of NAND Flash declines, thanks to strong demand for servers and SSD products, financial reports of most original Flash factory are good behaviour, but financial reports of master control factories and module factories have different performances.
Because the effect of the declining price of NAND Flash and the requirement of Galaxy S9|S9+ is not good as expected, the revenue of Samsung Q2 was $52.03 billion, which dropped 4 percent compared with the same period of last year and 3 percent on a month-on-month basis; the operating profit was $13.23, which grew 6 percent year on year and dropped 5 percent month on month; the net profit was $9.823, which was basically same compared with a year ago but dropped 6 percent month on month. In fiscal year 2018, the revenue of Western Digital Q4 was 5.117 billion dollars, which grew 5.7 percent year on year; the operating profit was 843 million dollars, which increased 29.3 percent year on year；the net profit was 756 million dollars, which explosively increased 170 percent compared with a year ago.
In fiscal year 2018, the revenue of Micron was 7.797 billion dollars, which grew 40.1 percent year on year and 6.1 percent month on month; the net profit was 3.823 billion dollars, which grew 132.2 percent year on year and 15.6 percent month on month. The net revenue of Intel Q2 was 17 billion dollars, which increased 15 percent compared with the same period of last year; the net profit was 5 billion dollars, which grew 78 percent compared with the same period of last year, and the revenue of NSG（belonged to Intel） was 1.1 billion dollars, which grew 23 percent year on year.
The revenue of SK Hynix was $9.227, which increased 55 percent year on year and 19 percent month on month. The profit from operation