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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."

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  1. Calls for a libation by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would that Scotch,
    Were so cheap by the DRAM,
    A shave, a shot, a gig;
    Still change for the tram.
    Burma Shave

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. More history by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    historic highs around $2.80

    You want historic highs? I remember a DRAM crunch in the 1980s when prices spiked at about $1000 per megabyte. (That's about 150,000 times more costly per bit than current prices.)

    Now, get off my lawn.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.