According to CoinMeta, recently, several industry insiders in the storage sector have revealed that some leading companies have verbally informed their distributors of their intention to raise prices at the enterprise level. Although the official price increase notices have not yet been issued, distributors have already started to adjust prices. Several agents have confirmed these signs of price increases. One Hynix agent stated, “Prices are rising every day.” He observed that the recycling prices for second-hand products have been on the rise, which in turn has driven up overall quotes; the process of price adjustment involves provincial agents setting prices weekly, and then the prices of the products they represent are passed on further down the chain, with “us following suit.” However, a Samsung agent mentioned that this round of price increases is not a general increase across all categories: the price hikes are mainly concentrated in the DRAM contract segment and the enterprise-level SSD original manufacturer/distributor end, and not in the consumer-grade NAND products. “The majority of the increase is in computing power centers; the demand from the grassroots level is actually quite average.” Since the price increases are initially focused on the DRAM contract segment and the enterprise-level SSD stage, when these price changes spread from the manufacturers to the market, they first reach the manufacturing companies and module manufacturers in between. These manufacturers are the first recipients of the price increases from the original manufacturers, and due to their different positions in the supply chain, they experience and feel the pressure differently.