DRAM Prices Continue to Decline

[Guest]

Reports coming out of Taiwan suggest that DRAM memory will lose 8 percent of their contract price in August alone.

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[CaedenV]

If I had the spare change I would so jump on these prices. I doubt I would jump up to 32GB of ram right away, but right now I would love to move from a 4x4kit to a 2x8kit, and from 1333 to 1600 with a future plan of a 2nd 2x8GB kit.
And what do you do when you have 32GB of ram? Ram Drive!

 

[CaedenV]

Anyone else getting the odd feeling that these low prices are a last ditch effort to spark interest in hardware before manufacturers just give up and say "screw it... the demand is for only x# of computers, and so we will raise our prices to survive on x# of sales"

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.

 

[Guest]

Just great. Queue the bankruptcies, mergers and buyouts. Like x86 makers, hard drive makers and video card makers, we're going to be left with 2 memory makers when all is said and done.

 

[sheepsnowadays]

4GB of DDR2 is still near $80

 

[zakaron]

[citation][nom]SheepsNowADays[/nom]4GB of DDR2 is still near $80[/citation]
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.

 

[spookyman]

Sweet I can get my 64gig RAM sticks.

When are they coming out with the 16gig sticks? I am still waiting.

 

[spartanmk2]

And there was much rejoicing.

 

[teh_chem]

Awesome how over 6 months ago consumers were told by RAM manufacturers to expect moderate price increases soon, and to stock up before the bump in prices...

[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]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.[/citation]
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?
[citation][nom]zakaron[/nom]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.[/citation]
Supply and demand--DDR2 isn't manufactured anymore, so it's a limited commodity and the price reflects that.

 

[cookoy]

With high capacity ram modules and hard drives, 1 or 2 pcs would be more than sufficient for most of us.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]Anyone else getting the odd feeling that these low prices are a last ditch effort to spark interest in hardware before manufacturers just give up and say "screw it... the demand is for only x# of computers, and so we will raise our prices to survive on x# of sales"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.[/citation]

Battery life, heat, size probably.

 

[tomfreak]

Still missing the cheap 8GB sticks. As long as 8GB stick do not cost exactly less than 2x the price of 4GB stick I wont be buying. DRAM can keep making 4GB stick and put into storage room, I wont buy it.

 

[belardo]

[citation][nom]sheepsnowadays[/nom]4GB of DDR2 is still near $80[/citation] Uh, supply and demand... this is normal. When DDR2 was standard and DDR3 was new... DDR3 was very expensive. AS DDR3 replaced DDR2 in computers, the prices balanced out... then as the old tech is phased out, its pricing goes up.

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.

 

[deicided]

[citation][nom]zakaron[/nom]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.[/citation]

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