Ram Prices

[mdessler]

Any idea why ram is like $25 - $30 more expensive???

[Guest]

To much demand, too little supply...

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

Because they can.

[mdessler]

Dang rip 

[mariushm]

Companies like Apple buying loads of LPDDR3 and LPDDR4 for their phones and tables. New iphone coming up, new samsung phones coming up etc..

Memory companies moving production capacity from memory to NAND (the chips in SSDs) because they're more profitable.

 

Companies having contracts which forces manufacturers to give them memory and flash chips for the back to school laptops and desktop offers and for the winter sales (though a bit late now already, companies usually already made deals for these months ago)

 

Micron having to shut down one of their plants for a few days due to some problems...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, ComputerCowz said:

Dang rip 

Prices could decrease within a years time like it did last year however we will need to wait and see. I might wait another half year before upgrading my laptop to 32gb (Might get impatient and impulsively buy some...)

[manikyath]

supply < demand.

[Tsuki]

hey another one of these threads

one of my quotes from a couple of the other threads on this

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its been going up steadily since Q2 of 2016 due to supply issues.  NAND flash is getting more popular, so they are producing more of that and have taken focus away from producing DRAM.

Samsung factories have also seen power outages that have caused issues with production.

we should see prices start to stabilize around Q3 of 2017

 

EDIT: also smartphone manufacturers are taking a large portion of the supply as we're seeing an increase in smart phones with more ram these days.