The price of ram will not only not drop in 2018 but will continue to rise
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RAM for PC is currently at its highest price in a long time, the price of this precious component has not stopped rising for a year and a half and everything indicates that it will continue to do so during 2018.
RAM and SSDs will be even more expensive in 2018
The initial reason for the rise in the price of RAM has been the high demand for chips by smartphone manufacturers, this has made the availability of chips for the PC market very low, and we already know how the law of supply and demand, since there is a demand greater than supply, manufacturers can do whatever they want with prices.
The production of RAM is expected to increase in 2018, something that should initially lower prices, but the reasons for hope are gradually fading. We have recently learned that the price of silicon wafers is going to rise in 2018 and also in 2019, this is the basic material for the manufacture of chips, so the prices of all these will be high.
This includes the DRAM chips that are used to make the RAM, as well as the CPUs, GPUs, and NAND memory chips on SSDs. Silicon is the basic element of current technology, so an increase in the price of this material will cause the prices of all or almost all components of a PC to rise.
Hopefully the price of aluminum and copper will not go too high or else we will also have problems when buying a simple heatsink not to mention even more expensive graphics cards.
The price of ram will continue to rise for months
The upward trend in RAM prices is going to continue for several months before the arrival of the new teams Kaby Lake and Ryzen.
The price of ram memories will continue to rise in 2017
In 2017 the price of RAM memories will increase over the months by the main manufacturers, Samsung, Hynix and Micron.
The nand is expected to continue falling in price, but not the ram
In contrast to NAND memory, RAM prices are likely to remain stable in 2019, all the details.
