News DRAM Prices Not Affected by Samsung Hwaseong Fab Outage, but Will Still Rise

[Admin]

DRAMeXchange predicted that DRAM price increases in Q1 2020 will be due to the normal cyclical behavior of the market.

DRAM Prices Not Affected by Samsung Hwaseong Fab Outage, but Will Still Rise : Read more

 

[Giroro]

Right before the most recent drop in memory prices, I had heard that China was investigating Samsung and the Triopoly for price-fixing (again).

Did that investigation conclude, or is it still ongoing?

Also, does anybody know the result/status of the class action lawsuit Hagens Berman filed against the industry in 2018?

 

[InvalidError]

Up north in Canuckistan, retail memory prices have already gone up ~20% over the last month, most of which after the Samsung oopsie.

 

[jakovasaurs]

"Cyclical." Call me a cynic but I wouldn't be surprised to hear about about another pittance settlement due to price-fixing in 1-3 years.

 

[Phaaze88]

I'm glad I grabbed 32GBs when Dram prices were at their lowest in ages...
I should be good until GDDR5 comes.

 

[InvalidError]

I should be good until GDDR5 comes.

GPUs use GDDR6 these days

I'm glad I got 32GB of DDR3 on my i5 eight years ago.

 

[hannibal]

Yeah. People buy dram as much as They need.
I upgraded my Computer Late last year with 64Gb of 3600 ddr4... not cheap, but I think that video editing will be much smoother than with my previous 16Gb of ddr3 but any normal people should still be ok with 16Gb.

 

[urbanman2004]

Right before the most recent drop in memory prices, I had heard that China was investigating Samsung and the Triopoly for price-fixing (again).

Did that investigation conclude, or is it still ongoing?

Also, does anybody know the result/status of the class action lawsuit Hagens Berman filed against the industry in 2018?

I'm wondering the same thing myself. Or was it just lip service?