Ultrabooks Will Both Help and Harm DRAM

With DRAM doing as badly as it is, Ultrabooks are seen as a sort of godsend in companies' aims to digest inventories, but it so happens that things aren't all going to change for the better.

By now, it has been about a year or more since the DRAM industry has been going from bad to worse.

Even just last week, it was reported that, despite some localized rebound, prices are still falling and will continue to do so, most likely.

In the meantime, Ultrabooks are considered the next best chance of things restabilizing on the chip market.

One thing they are poised to lead to is the full acceptance of 4 GB RAM as the standard capacity on personal computers.

In other words, notebooks, not just desktops, will have large capacities of memory, which means that DRAM makers will see an increase in orders.

This should finally allow them to digest their inventories, which have been painfully overfilled for months now.

Granted, consumers will no longer have super-low RAM module prices to feel glee over, but it isn't like those prices actually enabled a demand growth.

Unfortunately, Ultrabooks aren't likely to solve all the problems, even if there might be visible short-term benefits.

The 'issue' is in how these super-thin mobile computers don't have any upgrade sockets of the sort that users call upon in their endeavors to upgrade their device's resources.

Commonly, makers of chips expect PC buyers to eventually look for memory upgrades and the like, but ultrabooks won't actually allow for such procedures.

As such, the aftermarket upgrade business will take a hit if Ultrabooks really live up to their expectations of accounting for more and more of the world's total laptop, and, by extension, overall computer shipments.

As always, time will tell if this report, made by Digitimes, is proven valid or not.