According to analyst firm forecasts DRAMeXchange, spot prices for DDR2-gigabit chips may soon overcome trehdollarovuyu mark. Recall that in mid-September, industry observers have reported a possible increase in prices to $2 to the end of the year. But at the end of the month rise in prices for memory ahead of forecasts.
Let us follow the price dynamics of recent months. In mid-July spot prices for gigabit eTT DDR2 chips were $1.05. In September, the memory went up by 84%. In October, the trend has not changed and prices have risen another 35%. As of November 5 DDR2-chips have a price bracket $2,6. The average spot price of DDR3-chip 1 Gb totaled $2,82.
As noted DRAMeXchange, key industry manufacturers, Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor and Elpida Memory aggressively volumes DDR3-memory. OEM-supplier of personal computers to speed up the transition to DDR3. It is expected that by the middle of next year’s PC with DDR3 the volumes of deliveries, finally, ahead of the old memory.
Materials on the topic:
– Market Basket – Market RAM;
– three-channel kit production of DDR3 A-Data;
– Comparative testing DDR2 and DDR3 memory platform AMD Socket AM3.
