Market Forces: Demand And Supply

Samsung and Hynix Semiconductor to Cut
Chip Production
Sam Robbins, owner and CEO of PC
Solution, arrived at the office and glanced at
the front page of The Wall Street Journal
waiting on his desk.
One of the articles contained statements from
executives of two of South Korea’s largest
semiconductor manufactures (Samsung
Electronics Company and Hynix Semiconductor),

Samsung and Hynix Semiconductor to Cut
Chip Production (continued)
Indicating that they would suspend all their
memory chip production for one week.
The
article went on to say that another large
semiconductor manufacturer was likely to
follow suit.
Collectively, these three chip
manufacturer produce about 30 percent of
the world’s basic semiconductor chips.

Samsung and Hynix Semiconductor to Cut
Chip Production (continued)
PC Solutions is a small but growing company that assembles PCs and

