--- title: "Samsung Electronics raises memory prices by 30% again, the Guotai STAR Chip ETF rises by 0.34%, with an average daily trading volume of 24.2974 million yuan in the past month" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/281816316.md" description: "Samsung Electronics is expected to achieve record high profits in the first quarter, as a surge in demand for artificial intelligence has led to supply bottlenecks in memory chips, causing prices to rise by approximately 30%. The Guotai STAR Chip ETF (589100) rose by 0.34%, with an average daily trading volume of 24.2974 million yuan over the past month. The SSE STAR Chip Index (000685) increased by 0.48%, with constituent stocks such as Centec Communications and Biwin also seeing gains. Guotai Haitong Securities pointed out that future chip design will focus on computing power explosion and architectural innovation" datetime: "2026-04-07T01:44:14.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281816316.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281816316.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/281816316.md) --- # Samsung Electronics raises memory prices by 30% again, the Guotai STAR Chip ETF rises by 0.34%, with an average daily trading volume of 24.2974 million yuan in the past month As of April 7, 2026, 09:30, the SSE STAR Chip Index (000685) rose by 0.48%. The constituent stocks include Centec Communications, which increased by 3.00%, Biwin, which rose by 2.72%, Chipone, which went up by 2.49%, Xinyuan Micro, which climbed by 2.20%, and Zhongke Feicai, which gained 1.52%. The STAR Chip ETF Guotai (589100) increased by 0.34%, with the latest price reported at 1.49 yuan. Looking at a longer time frame, as of April 3, 2026, the STAR Chip ETF Guotai has accumulated a rise of 0.82% over the past two weeks. In terms of liquidity, the STAR Chip ETF Guotai had a turnover of 0% during the trading session, with a transaction volume of 17,400 yuan. Over a longer period, as of April 3, the average daily transaction volume for the STAR Chip ETF Guotai over the past month was 24,297,400 yuan. In news, recently, Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip manufacturer, announced its preliminary financial report data for the first quarter, expecting record-high profits for the quarter. This is due to a surge in demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, which has led to a bottleneck in memory chip supply, causing chip prices to rise. Amid the strong demand for memory chips, Samsung Electronics has completed DRAM price negotiations and signed supply contracts with major customers for the second quarter, with prices increasing by about 30% compared to the first quarter. Guotai Haitong Securities pointed out that chip design will focus on computing power explosion, architectural innovation, and manufacturing ecosystem reconstruction in the future. Breakthroughs in open-source architectures like RISC-V and vertical integration driven by companies like Tesla will establish long-term advantages for design companies with high performance and low power consumption characteristics. The STAR Chip ETF Guotai (589100) allows for a one-click layout of the entire scene of domestic "chips," packaging the core leaders of the entire industrial chain and all categories of domestic chips. 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