The price of ram memories will continue to rise in 2017

A few days ago we told you about the production problems that were occurring with SSD memories that increased costs per unit. Apparently this problem is also happening to RAM memories, which have been increasing in price since the end of last year.

RAM memory modules increase in price since 2017

As reported by the DRAMeXchange site, the price of 4GB DRAM modules for PCs increased in value by 20% between September and October last year. What is worrying is that the trend in 2017 is upward, prices will not stop rising as soon as production problems are not resolved.

Factories do not cope with demand

The factories that are engaged in the assembly of this type of memory are not coping with the demand for memories, which worsened during the second half of 2016. According to DRAMeXchange, the demand for DRAM memories exceeded all the manufacturers' expectations, which They are running out of inventory due to the strong demand for electronic devices that make use of it.

Today practically everything has memory chips to store data, permanently or volatile, such as RAM. Video consoles, smartphones, Smart TVs, computers, laptops, etc., all of them use it and demand will only increase, directly affecting the price per unit.

Best RAM memory on the market

That is why they already predict that in 2017 the price of RAM will increase over the months by the main manufacturers, Samsung, Hynix and Micron.

Source: techpowerup