The price of ram will rise another 3% in the second quarter

The prices of SSDs have started to drop noticeably, something that was also expected for PC RAM, but everything indicates that this will not be the case in the end. The latest reports suggest that the prices of RAM memory are not only not going to go down, but are going to keep going up over the next few months.

RAM will continue to rise in price

According to DRAMeXchange, contract prices for DRAM memory chips for PCs experienced an average increase of around 5% in the first quarter of this year 2018. It is said that the problems of supply of nitrogen in Micron Memory Taiwan, can prolong the current shortage of DRAM chips, and contract prices are expected to increase by 3% in the second quarter of this year 2018.

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Micron Technology reported on March 20 that its subsidiary Micron Memory Taiwan experienced an interruption in nitrogen supply due to malfunctioning of the systems, something that has decreased the production of memory chips. Micron Memory Taiwan is expected to resume full production in early April. A curious fact that comes after Samsung suffered a power outage that spoiled 60, 000 silicon wafers.

A new stick for all users who expected the price of DDR4 memory modules to start to drop soon, it seems that the situation of chip shortage, and demand higher than supply is far from over. We have been almost two years in which the price of DDR4 has not stopped rising and will not change soon.

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