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Guru3D.com » News » DDR3 pricing hits two-year high

DDR3 pricing hits two-year high

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/25/2013 05:53 PM | source: | 10 comment(s)
DDR3 pricing hits two-year high

Bloomberg reported o that memory prices hit a two-year high as a result of the fire in SK Hynix' fab in Wuxi, China. Analysts expect chip prices will continue to rise throughout the fourth quarter or that there will be no drop until production capacity returns to normal. The price of the benchmark DDR3 2-gigabit dynamic random-access memory chip reached $2.27 yesterday, compared with $1.60 on Sept. 4, when a fire forced the closing of SK Hynix’s factory in Wuxi, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia’s largest market for the components. Icheon, South Korea-based SK Hynix expects to resume production on the fire-hit line next month.

SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest producer of memory chips with customers including Apple Inc. (AAPL), Dell Inc. (DELL) and Sony Corp. (6758), has boosted production in South Korea to reduce the impact of the fire. The surge in prices may affect smartphone makers as International Data Corp. forecasts that China shipments alone will surge to 450 million units next year from 360 million units this year.







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sykozis



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#4661768 Posted on: 09/25/2013 05:59 PM
that sucks. Glad I don't need any memory....

k1net1cs



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#4661791 Posted on: 09/25/2013 06:22 PM
Yeah...how fortunate I was having to replace a dying 4GB stick for my laptop around a week ago. =/
I guess I can consider myself lucky I didn't have to replace both 4GB sticks, but at the price I paid for that single 4GB stick it's only short a couple of bucks from the price of two back when I purchased the stick I'm replacing!

ManofGod
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#4661814 Posted on: 09/25/2013 06:50 PM
Of course, that means there is a good chance that everything that uses memory will have a price increase. :( Ka-ching....

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#4661828 Posted on: 09/25/2013 07:06 PM
owww crap. Just checked price of my RAM - 78% more than i bought it for about 16 months ago. That's insane.

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#4661831 Posted on: 09/25/2013 07:10 PM
Wow that's bad news.I already had a dual G.skill 8gb kit but suddenly i saw a special offer on the Corsair 16gb kit for only 70 € that lasted 1 week i couldn't resist myself so i bought them and right now on the same store they are going for 206.44 € now i can't imagine how high the prices might rise to.Btw i still have the 8 gb kit sitting on my desk since then...

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