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November 25th, 2011, 16:12 GMT · By

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RAM Starts Getting Expensive Again

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If you were going to buy a memory product for Christmas, you might just want to do it now instead of waiting any longer, because their prices started to go back up.

Hopefully it won't be a lightning fast process, not like what happened to HDDs when they doubled or tripled in price, but factories seem to be have finally succeeded in sending chip prices hiking.

It isn't just any percentage either, but a full 10%, for 1 Gb DDR2 at least, while 2 Gb DDR3 went up by 3%.

This is a good news for makers of memory, but not as great for consumers, who never actually have a cause to feel sad about products being cheap.

DRAM suppliers were able to get the quotes to rise because they deliberately cut production, so memory products are probably going to keep getting more and more expensive by the end of the year and probably beyond that too.
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Comment #1 by: blazzer12 on 29 Nov 2011, 10:55 UTC reply to this comment

"DRAM suppliers were able to get the quotes to rise because they deliberately cut production"

what does that mean? price fixing? the informant anybody....?

Comment #1.1 by: Sebastian Pop on 29 Nov 2011, 12:37 GMT

No, not price fixing or anything illegal like that. They really didn't have much choice in the matter. They had to start reducing how many RAM they made each month because Inventories were filling up faster than people bought.

This is a last resort, or close to it. There really is no point in making so many memory products if no one is going to buy them.

It's only price fixing if you're trying to sell them for MORE than you should, not when you're trying to curb a trend that threatens the very market you operate in.

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