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.
DDR3 pricing will rise - 01/30/2013 09:38 AM
Arguably it's been at such an all-time low that I'm glad to see it rise a little for the sake of the ODMs. But pricing of DDR3 memory is set to rise. Following sharp price reductions, the trend is ...
DDR3 prices will drop a little - 07/30/2010 11:19 AM
DDR3 contract quotes have declined 2% on average for the latter half of July while the price for DDR2 parts has remained steady, according to DRAMeXchange. Contract prices for 1Gb DDR3 have slid by up...
DDR3 prices going down real hard - 04/29/2009 09:15 AM
Samsung has recently started offering 2GB DDR3 parts at a lower price to some first-tier PC vendors. The site heard these DDR3 modules are just $1 more expensive than same-capacity DDR2 modules. In o...
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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!
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Of course, that means there is a good chance that everything that uses memory will have a price increase.

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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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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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that sucks. Glad I don't need any memory....