DRAM Contract Prices Decline in November
DRAM contract prices continued their downward slide in November.
Prices fell about 3 percent in the second half, following a stable period in the first half of the month, DRAMeXchange said. 2 GB DDR3 modules were selling for an average of $8.75, while and 4GB versions averaged $15.25.
2 Gb chips sold for about $0.80 in the second half of the year, down from $0.83 earlier last month. Current prices are holding stable, selling for an average of $0.80, with lows of $0.78. Digitimes reported that it is unlikely that DRAM prices will be falling further.
The future for DRAM makers is uncertain as the PC marketing is in a slump and would need a substantial boost to entice PC makers to stock up on memory and increase their purchases. In a scenario pointed out by Digitimes, more PC makers will be focusing on non-PC products, which will impact the bit growth of DRAM memory: DRAM makers may ship only 30 percent more bit capacity than they did in 2012, Digitimes said.
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wanderer11 wannabeproJust a little more and then RAM will be cheap enough for 128 GB RAM disks.Too bad mobos with that many RAM slots aren't getting any cheaper.Reply -
mrmaia xpehJust a little more and RAM will be free.Reply
A bit further and they'll pay us to use DRAM. -
hate machine Remember earlier this year when everyone kept saying that DRAM prices would go back up... yea.Reply -
bak0n When games, office suites and web surfing require more than 8 gb of ram, prices will rise again. Since the majority of the people do little more than that, that is.Reply -
tmk221 bak0nWhen games, office suites and web surfing require more than 8 gb of ram, prices will rise again. Since the majority of the people do little more than that, that is.Reply
But games rarely requires 8gb of ram... -
zeratul600 oh but they will, world of warcraft doesnt consume more than 800 MB in ram, a flash game in mozilla could go up to 1GB so eventually games will require that much ramReply -
tomfreak well they could have ask the SSD to come out a SSD with DRAM as for caching. (much like HDD with SSD as caching) DRAM as caching would probably help reduce the SSD write cycle wear out.Reply