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expect further DRAM price increases - Micron Fab2 was temporarily shut down due to contamination

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surce: http://hexus.net/business/news/components/107617-micron-dram-factory-mishap-taiwan-results-fab-suspension/

 

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Micron Technology Taiwan has reportedly shuttered one of its two DRAM fabrication plants in Taiwan. The production lines at Fab-2 were closed down at the beginning of this month after it was found that a nitrogen gas dispensing system had malfunctioned and contaminated both wafers and chipmaking equipment.

 

The bad news is that the Inotera Fab-2 facility output accounted for 5.5 per cent of worldwide DRAM production (approx 60,000 wafer starts per month) until it closed. With this facility out of action there will undoubtedly be an impact on the balance of demand and supply. You already know it - DRAM prices are set to increase off the back of this news in the coming weeks, if not straight away.

 

I thank the makers that I managed to get 16GB of DDR4 on 1/2 the price of the same kitt you can buy today

suspect this global DRAM supply problem to last well into 2018 and probably 2019 :|

 

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10 minutes ago, zMeul said:

contaminated both wafers

contaminated BOTH wafers!!!! - ALL TWO OF THEM

those where the last wafers, we are dooomed - DOOOMED

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Fuck.

 

Well...Monitors are expensive as fvck and its not like there are any GPUs to be had either, so to hell with PCs.  Its more and more a suckers game.

 

:edit: fake?  Bah.  whatever, I don't even care anymore.

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Regarding recent rumours about Micron's fabrication facility in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Micron hereby clarifies that there was no nitrogen leaking incident nor evacuating of personnel,
There was indeed a minor facility event but operations are recovering speedily without material impact to the business

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good. Micron can burn. 

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Oh god :(...

 

 

 

Not the chips, were all doomed without chips and wafers.

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1 hour ago, RotoCoreOne said:

how am i to get rgb ram now?!?! D:

pay more for it.

 

or actually, just pay the same for it, since it's fake news anyway

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19 minutes ago, Prysin said:

Fake news Zmeul strikes again

wtf even is hexus, next thing I'll play Starcraft and put down a Nexus and get triggered thinking it's a crappy news site

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Glad to hear this is fake/overblown whatever you wanna say.
I really want to upgrade my PC, it is way too long overdue, but these inflated RAM prices make upgrading from a DDR3 PC to 4 cost way too much.

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25 minutes ago, Eaglerino said:

wtf even is hexus, next thing I'll play Starcraft and put down a Nexus and get triggered thinking it's a crappy news site

Hexus is usually a serious site. Less so in the past 3 months. They jump the gun too often these days.

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Well it's still a bad time for buying a PC, there's no Polaris, no ryzen 3, no A320 motherboards, ram and SSDs are expensive, but I'm glad this is fake.

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this is a setup to increase prices even further so they can profit off it, its not like all of a sudden the production cost is higher so higher prices means high profits

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19 hours ago, Prysin said:

Fake news Zmeul strikes again

Saying fake news with that profile pic is 10/10

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On 7/5/2017 at 4:47 PM, Jito463 said:

The real question on everyone's mind is, do we still have sufficient dip for the chips?

Not enough, Linus used up the world's supply of Plastidip in one of his videos

 

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Meh, even if so prices will go down eventually though.

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