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When are RAM prices going to go back down? It used to be around 5-6 dollars per gigabyte and now it's up to about 9-12.

I know RAM Companies were losing money doe to that insustainable buisness model.

Is there any reason the price jumped so high?

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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/172634-ram-prices-will-continue-to-climb-last-years-rock-bottom-prices-will-probably-never-return

 

Flash Manufacturers will probably milk the absolute hell out of the Hynix fire event, just like Hard drive manufacturers did following the floods. It's said, but true.

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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/172634-ram-prices-will-continue-to-climb-last-years-rock-bottom-prices-will-probably-never-return

 

Flash Manufacturers will probably milk the absolute hell out of the Hynix fire event, just like Hard drive manufacturers did following the floods. It's said, but true.

Looks to me like the fire was just an excuse to inflate the prices.

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Well, because you need an extremely clean clean room to make RAM, and only like 5 companies fabricate RAM, loosing a clean room does massively affect the RAM supply, especially with a RAM producer as big as Hynix. A price jump was reasonable due to supply and demand. However, for them to stay at this price is a rip off

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Looks to me like the fire was just an excuse to inflate the prices.

it is. when i bought my ram in 2012 it was £34 for 8gb it has come down but its still nearly double.

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companies do things like this all the time, Fuel companies are the worst, they can have a little rain storm with a little wind in it and they will jack prices up for 6 moths plus and blame it on the bad weather. 

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I got 8GB for $40.... Was thinking of upgrading but now prices are too expensive

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