DRAM Prices Continue to Decline
Reports coming out of Taiwan suggest that DRAM memory will lose 8 percent of their contract price in August alone.
MarketWatch reported that DRAM prices have just hit a new five-month low. According to DRAMeXchange, a 4GB DDR3 chip module sold for $18.75 last week and may drop to $18 this week.
Typically, there is a seasonal uptick in DRAM pricing in the September time frame due to increased demand from PC makers that are preparing for the Christmas season. However, there appears to be little to no increased demand, which could be caused by high inventory levels.
While there was no information how much inventory there is, there are implications that Windows 8 has not jumpstarted PC manufacturing enough to stimulate DRAM demand. At this time, DRAM prices are still falling and customers looking to upgrade the memory in their PCs may get even better deals toward the end of the year.

And what do you do when you have 32GB of ram? Ram Drive!
Maybe it's just me
Also, with ram so cheap why are we not seeing smartphones (all be it $500 smartphones) with 2-4GB of memory? Even high end phones are still at 512MB-1GB... and you cannot tell me that they could not benefit from having at least 2GB as the new standard.
And what do you do when you have 32GB of ram? Ram Drive!
Maybe it's just me
Also, with ram so cheap why are we not seeing smartphones (all be it $500 smartphones) with 2-4GB of memory? Even high end phones are still at 512MB-1GB... and you cannot tell me that they could not benefit from having at least 2GB as the new standard.
You know, I was thinking the same exact thing... why can't these prices fall back to DDR2? Even on ebay, a 2x2GB of 1066 DDR2 is rediculously high compared to DDR3.
When are they coming out with the 16gig sticks? I am still waiting.
Probably because the platform/OS isn't designed to even use/allocate that much RAM. What would you be doing with your phone these days that would even come close to needing 2-4GB of RAM?
Supply and demand--DDR2 isn't manufactured anymore, so it's a limited commodity and the price reflects that.
Battery life, heat, size probably.
The manufactures are making 10,000x the DDR3 memory over DDR2. It costs more to make DDR2 memory... it costs more for you to buy it. DDR2 is only used for upgrades... if the price is too high, buy it used. Techs like myself have a drawer of DDR1 and DDR2 memory not being used.
Because as consumers upgrade to newer products older ones are manufactured less if at all so the supply of them dwindles. If you look at DDR you can be looking at hundreds of dollars for 1-2GB modules