Don't buy ram yet! Ram prices are going to drop BIG TIME!

I realize with the tempting G.skill 2GB kit for $109 shipped, it's hard to find a reason not to buy these fast dropping 2GB kits, but I have news for you, they're going to drop more.

This isn't a temporary price drop that'll sky rocket in summer. This is a permanent drop in price due to a lawsuit that revealed ram chip manufacturers to be price fixing.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4731559.html

"Il Ung Kim, a marketing vice president, is the sixth Samsung executive to agree to a prison sentence in the probe of price fixing for dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, the most common type of memory chips used in personal computers. Samsung is the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips."

And the more juicy piece of meat-

"Samsung, Elpida Memory Inc., Infineon Technologies AG and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have all pleaded guilty for their roles in the scheme and were ordered to pay about $729 million in fines. The fine for Samsung and its subsidiary totaled $300 million."

Even Micron will have to lower its ram prices, because binned Elpida chips, Hynix performance IC's and Samsung binned chips will be roughly $95 shipped for 2GB kits. I'd expect to see Micron D9 based memory in the sub $130 range soon for 2GB kits.

Just some news for you guys!

LOL, pun intended?

Ram companies don't have as much hush money as the oil companys so probably not

If they had invested it all from when Win95 was hitting the market they probably would....

I don't buy that. Since the Intel price drops are already here.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Prod [...] Code=80860

It's all about supply and demand. I have a friend who works for Mushkin Memory and he said that they are already being charged more for their Micron D9 chip's from their supplier. And they will soon be passed on to us. "So get them now while they are still cheap"

lol you mind dumbing that down a lil what exactly did that all mean why r they in trouble and how is it being sold for cheap

ohhh ok lol i got you fell really dumb now...

I have a friend who just bought the Kingston 2gig DDR2 667 kit for $107. Im planning to get such a kit if the SE16 I ordered doesnt fix my dead dell.

I think that the reason that 2 gig kits dropped 50% in price over the past couple months was because of those price fixing lawsuits.

I dont think that ram prices CAN drop that much more. Can you imagine a 2gig kit for $60? People will begin to say that buying 1gig sticks will be a waste of a slot.

We need 2gig kits to be perfected, mobo support to be improved, and prices to go down.

I imagine DDR3 will be faster. Will not fit into DDR2 slots and will make us have to spend more money to upgrade our computers yet again.

Q3 this year supposedly

This is nothing new. This has been unfolding for some time now. Don't expect too much to come of it in regards to pricing. Current price fluctuations will be as a result of other factors.

Here are some previous articles.

02-08-07: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/30909/118/
12-21-06: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/30401/122/
10-19-06: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/29285/122/
09-22-06: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/28760/122/
03-23-06: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/25308/118/
03-02-06: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/24938/118/
04-21-05: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/2782/139/
12-30-04: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/4606/139/
02-26-04: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/8915/139/
01-02-04: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/9785/139/

I figure back to 2004 is enough even though the DoJ was looking back further.