New basement price for Flash NAND

Whereas the manufacturers of Flash NAND memory hoped that the market of their product would again rise, it has just undergone a new fall, reaching a new low price. A chip of 1 GB of memory costs no more than $2,35 while that of 4 GB is only $4.
Once again, the manufacturers seem to be misled by their estimates. They supposed that the market of SSD disks, the large-scale consumer potential for these chips, was going to take off while that is still not the case.
Even though the chipmakers are morose, the consumers profit from products that are less expensive. But the first to suffer are still the integrators of these chips, manufacturers of USB keys or other devices of low technicality. They have not only the bad luck to work in this saturated market, but they have also to compete with the manufacturers of these chips who start to sell end products in order to recover a bit of the margin taken by their former customers.