DDR3 Makers Close Out Year with a Whimper
DDR3 Makers Close Out Year with a Whimper
Posted 12/13/2010 at 7:22am
| by Paul Lilly
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Egads. Zoinks. Aw shucks. These are all expressions you're likely to hear emanating from DDR3 factories in Taiwan, because all the more colorful ones have already been used ad nauseum. Things aren't getting any better, either.
Contract prices for 1Gb (gigabit) DDR3 chips averaged just $1.09 for the first half of December, the lowest they've been in all of 2010, DigiTimes reports. That's down 10.66 percent so far for the month, after having already tumbled 13.35 percent in the second half of November.
In terms of actual memory modules, 2GB DDR3 sticks slipped to $20 for the first half of December, a 9 percent drop sequentially, according to data by DRAMeXchange. Looking ahead, DRAMeXchange predicts more of the same (falling prices) through at least the first half of 2011.
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drcrazyrich
December 16, 2010 at 12:00pm
FINALLY !! OVER PRICED BS FROM THE START AT OVER 3X MORE THAN DDR2 WAS .THEIR SOLUTION WAS TO SCREW US OVER ON DDR2 AS WELL NOT DROP DDR3 PRICE TO A MORE REASONABLE INVESTMENT.BUT NO THEY CONTINUED TO BEND US OVER AND NOW THEY RE CRYING ?? TOO BAD CONCIDERING A MOBO CAN BE HAD FOR LESS ,WHY IS THAT???
slynn12
December 13, 2010 at 1:42pm
So, does this mean prices will drop on RAM in the near future? I'm looking to get 6GB more for my system, it's already at $75 dollars and I'm hoping it'll drop even lower. Certainly hope it won't get phased out before I get a chance to buy it.
The_Dez
December 13, 2010 at 9:09am
Why isn't the same thing happening to DDR2? (got a DDR2 board a few months ago)
rseding91
December 13, 2010 at 2:56pm
Because RAM makers are slowly stopping making DDR2 and are now making DDR3.
It's the same thing that happened when we switched from DDR to DDR2. The demand for DDR2 is low which makes sales low which makes RAM makers produce less and so the cost goes up.
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