Report: DRAM will become even cheaper

It was not so long ago, the purchase of computer memory was accompanied by a grimace and a grinding sound. For a moment, we heard about rising and rising prices for memory. There was even a class action on price fixing. Now prices are down and it looks like it will continue, according to an Exchange DRAM report.

The site indicates that prices of DRAMs fell by nearly 10% in the second quarter of 2019, which is due to a steady decline. The offer outweighs the demand for material at the moment. DRAM Exchange expects prices to continue to decline until the third quarter, as stocks fuel existing stocks. Prices could fall further. On the supplier side, this has translated into lower revenues and profit margins.

However, the supply complications did not affect NAND as hard. A combination of memory demand in different markets rebounding after the off-season and a power outage at a Toshiba production site helped keep NAND prices more stable. The large stock of NAND suppliers is supposed to prevent prices from climbing. The company says demand could be weaker than in previous years "due to geo-economic conflicts," which Tom's Hardware says is probably a reference to the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.

Memory prices have sometimes been quite volatile, with fires and other fires increasing prices for years. The demand for memory has also exploded along with the smartphone market, making the tasks of memory providers even more difficult. It's not even two years ago, 16GB of DDR4 RAM had climbed to $ 200. These days, you can get 32 ​​GB for $ 179. A pair of 8 GB DIMMs with all flashing lights .