Or more likely would be time for competition authorities to start looking into memory makers with magnifying glass in one hand and big club in other.
They have opted to slow down their capacity expansions and technology migrations so that they can keep next year’s prices at the same high level as during this year’s second half. Doing so will also help them to sustain a strong profit margin.
http://press.trendforce.com/press/20170920-2972.html
I wonder whether these "strong profit margins" result in increased absolute profit or because of the (much) lower demand, they are doing an evil favour both to the cutomers and to themselves.