Early November 2012 DRAM Prices Decline, Flash Stabilizes

[Guest]

DRAM is beginning the week with another decline and no signs of price stabilization.

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[anxiousinfusion]

A part of me was hoping it would continue to tank so that manufacturers would push for DDR4.

 

[digiex]

DRAM are so dirt cheap that they look like combs.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]anxiousinfusion[/nom]A part of me was hoping it would continue to tank so that manufacturers would push for DDR4.[/citation]

We need devices that can use DDR4 before DDR4 can be sold much.

 

[Guest]

Soon... DDR3 prices are becoming so cheap that a 16GB (8gb x2 kit) will be the new 4gb.

 

[atikkur]

cheap always a good thing.. so everyone doesnt need win8 ,, just add more ram

 

[MystK]

Where can I find 4GB of 1600MHz RAM for $1.62!?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]MystK[/nom]Where can I find 4GB of 1600MHz RAM for $1.62!?[/citation]

Where did you read that you can? The article clearly states 4Gb (equal to 512MB), not 4GB, and that it's for the individual chips, not the rest of the module.

 

[pjmelect]

DDR and DDR2 memory cost a arm and a leg, I would have thought that it would be more profitable to stop producing DDR3 memory and produce the older memory. The volumes may be a lot smaller but the profit margin would be enormous.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]DDR and DDR2 memory cost a arm and a leg, I would have thought that it would be more profitable to stop producing DDR3 memory and produce the older memory. The volumes may be a lot smaller but the profit margin would be enormous.[/citation]

I can't imagine them selling much. How many new computers or other such devices use older memory except for mobile phones/tablets/similar devices that use low power versions of DDR and DDR2? I'd think that if there was ample demand, memory companies might produce more DDR2 memory, but that they don't because there simply isn't enough demand for it.

 

[jazz84]

[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]DDR and DDR2 memory cost a arm and a leg, I would have thought that it would be more profitable to stop producing DDR3 memory and produce the older memory. The volumes may be a lot smaller but the profit margin would be enormous.[/citation]

Unless I'm mistaken (and that is ALWAYS a possibility), I'm pretty sure that the DDR3 chips are produced on a smaller manufacturing node than DDR2. The switch from producing DDR2 to DDR3 would likely involve some re-tooling at the chip manufacturing stage, and going back would likely be unjustifiably expensive.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]jazz84[/nom]Unless I'm mistaken (and that is ALWAYS a possibility), I'm pretty sure that the DDR3 chips are produced on a smaller manufacturing node than DDR2. The switch from producing DDR2 to DDR3 would likely involve some re-tooling at the chip manufacturing stage, and going back would likely be unjustifiably expensive.[/citation]

You could simply do a die shrink to a modern process. I still say that I think that it's not worth doing, but there's little reason to use an older lithography when newer and better ones are available.