From one perspective, yes. Unfortunately, those low DDR2 prices could have been a strong indicator of us being in an economic recession. These low DDR3 prices could indicate the same for today. Let's hope this is not the case. I did read the other day that Dell's system sales were lower than expected. Gah, I'm such a Debbie Downer. :biggrin:
the $20 4gb kits you saw were because of the recession.
infineon went bankrupt , and liquidated their stock depressing spot prices. on top of that manufacturers of all kinds in the economy were cutting inventory to have more cash on hand (since there was no credit available).
this caused a decrease in capital spending as well to expand plants from over capacity. the prices you see today is really just plant expansion etc getting back to higher conditions . that high ram price period was because of the no expansion of factories because of the "lehman brotherse world is going to end times" and todays "its just crappy" times. i figure if it was a good econonmy, we'd have the situation again where factory expansion would get so big that some ram manufacturers would be losing money again (i think a few in taiwan actually got bailed out, during the last, over expansion , then money losing spell)
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