In 2022, China bought 30% of the world's memory chips, about 300 billion yuan, and the self-sufficiency rate is about 15%

In 2022, China bought 30% of the world's memory chips, about 300 billion yuan, and the self-sufficiency rate is about 15%

Data show that the global DRAM chip market size in 2022 is about 79.7 billion US dollars. The market size of NAND flash memory chips is about $58.7 billion, and the combined size of the two reached $139.4 billion.

Chinese companies bought about 30% of the world's DRAM chips in 2022, or about $23.9 billion. It also bought the world

About 33% of NAND flash chips, about $19.3 billion.

In total, Chinese companies bought about 30% of the world's memory chips, spending about $43.2 billion, equivalent to about RMB

300 billion yuan.

Note that this 300 billion yuan refers to the consumption of Chinese enterprises themselves, rather than China's imports, China's 2022 import of memory chips, actually more than 100 billion US dollars. But this is because China as a global electronic products manufacturing center, such as HP, DELL, Apple's mobile phones, computers manufactured in China, need memory chips, and then need to import from abroad, but these will not be counted in the 300 billion yuan.

Source : Status of the Memory industry , Yole Intelligence 

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