14 DAY TRIAL // After over a year of troubling price decline, random access memory chips and, by extension, modules, may finally experience a respite.
That is to say, the companies that produce RAM won't have any more reason to bemoan their ailing finances.
Though low prices are only a motive for happiness as far as customers are concerned, they are also an indication that those very same customers aren't buying memory in too great capacities.
Supply has been much higher than demand for many months, with episodes of slight improvement few and far between.
Due to this, prices fell almost constantly, in many cases by more than 50%.
At the moment, many 8 GB kits sell for sums on par with those that 4 GB products sported the same time last year, or even less.
Now, analysts believe that there won't be any further drop for a while.
In other words, memory prices are stabilizing, so even though RAM will continue to be cheap, it won't get any cheaper.
Prospective buyers that were waiting and hoping for further downward slides in costs may as well stop putting off their purchases.
For those who want precise numbers, 2 GB DDR3 modules now have an average selling point of $9.25, or 7.11 Euro.
In keeping with the same trend, 4 GB DDR3 products are expected to hover at the $16.5 level, or 12.68 Euro.
The second half of December, 2011 already passed by without any price fluctuations.
What's more, some PC OEMs have even increased their DRAM order volumes, to avoid possible shortages later on.
A while ago, we said that RAM was the most convenient buy during the holidays, among tech products at any rate.
The situation continues to hold true and probably will persist through the Chinese New Year and afterwards.