Will DDR4 prices go down???

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Arty64

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It's new technology so I'm wondering if the prices will decline over the coming months. It's like £180 for an 8GB Kit.
 
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Its currently similar to how DDR3 was when it launched. As it becomes more wide spread and the volumes go up the prices will come down, right now there just isn't a big enough market for it. Until a mainstream processor family that can use DDR4 is launched the price will remain high, currently the Haswell-E chips are the only ones that can use it. When Intel releases a low end CPU that can run DDR4 that will drive demand and the price will drop pretty quickly, in a few years it should eb pretty close to DDR3 prices.
 
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Obviously prices will go down over time, just like ssd's. It will go down over time, and as they get progressively bigger/better, as well as more manufactures. It is also affected by the price it costs to produce.
 
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In addition to hunter315's response, prices will indeed drop once DDR4 becomes more mainstream and is adopted by the majority of general consumers (once DDR3 is considered obsolete). DDR4 will be supported by Intel's Skylake architecture, which is to be released towards the end of 2015, or beginning of 2016. The socket 1151 motherboard (not yet released) will support DDR4.

Once socket 1151 is released for the general consumers and more consumers transition to DDR4, hopefully prices should decrease. No one can be certain by how much and when. Intel will released socket 1151/Skylake towards the end of 2015 or beginning of 2016, however not all consumers will immediately adopt socket 1151.

It's all a matter of time. To be honest, I'm still satisfied with DDR3.

All the best. :)
 
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USAFRet

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I remember reading in PC Magazine, 1990 or 91...."no one needs a 386 processor, outside of a server farm. They are too expensive and overpowered"

Prices for DDR4 will come down, along with all the associated hardware. Motherboards and CPUs to go with them. As it has happened with every generational change.

When? Who knows.
 
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Tradesman1

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Prices will drop, it may be awhile, now that there's some out there, production will rise to meet demand, but also keep in mind now that there is some out there, the manufacturers will be finer tuning the DRAM to get get much better timings and performance - as the higher performance sticks come out they will be a bit costlier until another platform (lower priced) opens up and it will take longer for DDR4 than it did for DDR3 as Intel is the only real player. I don't picture AMD putting out much of anything soon that will employ DDR4 as they did fairly quickly with DDR3
 
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