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Oversupply Sends DRAM Prices To One-Year Low

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cheap-at-twice-the-price dept.

alphadogg writes "DRAM chip prices reached a one-year low on Tuesday and approached their cheapest ever due to a post-holiday oversupply. The cheap memory chips are pushing PC prices lower too, a Taiwan-based trading platform said. Prices for commodity 1-Gbit DDR3 DRAM chips dropped to an average of $0.84 per unit from historic highs around $2.80 in April and May last year, said Ivan Lin, publicist and editor with DRAMeXchange. Prices hit a record low of $0.81 per chip in March 2009, according to the exchange's daily surveys."

3 of 161 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What Do You Do When Demand Is Satisfied? by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Collusion to raise prices is hard.

    Not to mention illegal. :P

  2. Re:$2.80 to $0.84? by jimicus · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's probably for the chip, before it's soldered onto a DIMM, before it's even left the factory.

    You'd be amazed how much money needs to be spent to turn it into something you can actually plug into your PC.

  3. Re:$2.80 to $0.84? by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its also per gigaBIT, not gigabyte. Multiply by 8 and you have $22.40 sticks dropping to $6.40. I do remember it being around $20 a gig a while ago, and if you check current prices RAM is about $8 a gig now.