MEMORY PRICES, when will its stop!

[WhoseNext]

I need 128mgs of pc133, should I wait, or should I order now? Can anyone predict? $170 is kind of steep since it was $120 not so long ago. BTW what causes the prices to go up like oil?

 

[Silencer]

Crucial sells it's pc133 128MB's for $140. There's a lot that goes into the producion of mamory that causes to price to fluctuate. Example: Taiwan/Hong Kong earthquake.

 

[DaveCSparty]

there's no earthquakes in hong kong dude. taiwan and japan, now that's a different story.

 

[Tripleshot]

natural desasters are the reason for ram price increases? LOL
I don't think so.

Try normal market fluctuations.OEMs have probably bought everything in sight to ramp up for December sales.Now manufacturs need to pump out chips for the rest of us and that takes a few weeks to a month to get production to the market.

actually,$170 isn't that bad. There are a good many in here that paid twice that for the memory thats running thier machines now.

(I wouldn't be surprized if $10 per chip is going into a legal defense fund to battle Rambus in the courts)

 

[Silencer]

Dave: I knew it was either Taiwan or Hong Kong.

And yes, Natural Disasters can cause price increases. Lotsa things can, but I agree that RAMBUS and OEM's have a bigger impact.

All you can do is hope!

 

[Tripleshot]

Compnerd09

<<Uh yes the reason for the last huge spike in SDRAM prices was due to an earthquake in Japan which knocked out like 3 SDRAM manufacturing plants. read the news>>

I want to see a link to the news article you got this from.

And even if 3 plants in japan wree knocked out,ram is manufactured all over the world. It would be absurd to think that an earthquake knocking out 3 Japanese plants would cause a 50% price spike. Other factors are at work.IMHO

 

[WoundedWallet]

Order now. Unless you're willing to wait till 2002.

Read here http://www.semibiznews.com/story/OEG20000706S0001

Whether the high prices culprit is Rambus, Nature or good planning on their part, there is nothing that makes prices go down besides oversupply.

What I wonder is what kinda memory will be prevalent in two years from now?

WW

 

[Tripleshot]

In two years,Rambus and Sdram will be equal.Now,does that mean Rambus gets cheaper,or Sdram gets more expensive?

I think the IC manufacturers are going to hang back and let this Rambus debacle play out before they ramp up any full scale production on any pc ram solution.That article refers to other ram for cell phones and such,so no one is going out of business.

 

[randomlinh]

it's more like &quot;oh, there's an earthquake, let's use this as excuse to bump up the prices.&quot;

 

[Descend492]

The earthquakes were the reason for the major price increases. The prices are now dropping because the plants are getting up and functional again. I don't have any links to news sites, and haven't checked out the one above, but that probably is good enough

 

[Thor_Sevan]

Nah... I know what happened !! (WARNING.. this could offend some people, read with a good humor sense !)

One day.. an earthquake striked their country.... some of the birds that were in the ventilation system fell down on the boss head ! He got angry and said: &quot; What is this !!! Birds in my office because of an earthquake ? WE WILL RISE MEMORY PRICES !!!&quot; bouhaha

Ok ok... I think I am verrrrryyy tired.... must get some sleep sooon !

Thor !
hehe

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

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What he said!

 

[WhoseNext]

How aboutric ram? Is it worth it?

 

[WhoseNext]

oops!generic ram

 

[Pariah]

There hasn't been a major quake in Japan since Kobe. The earthquakes were in Taiwan. Read the news again computernerd. They had very little impact on the market. RAM prices always increase at the end of the summer since the buying season is starting with kids going to school and getting computers, and then followed by the holidays.

 

[sandorski]

Prices are likely to keep going up until after xmas. No earthquake, typhoon, war, alien abduction about it. These price increases happen every year, or at least the 5 years I've been keeping track.

 

[Jhhnn]

The memory market is cyclical and speculative. Middlemen load up when the price is low, try to sell when it goes up. Any excuse to raise the price is good, as far as they are concerned, and only rising inventory &amp; slow sales will drive the price back down. Any supplier whose inventory is solid and whose line of supply is good loves talk about shortages, few businessmen would lower the price when they can sell all they can get at inflated prices.

 

[hans007]

from what i've been told most of the oems have started hoarding ram for the back to school and xmas season. They prebuild around a month before so it should start coming down end of november

 

[DarkManX]

my mom works at Dataram www.dataram.com they manufactorure RAM mostly for servers here in PA. and im sure there not the only ones that are in the US. all that crap about the earthquake is BS.

 

[RC]

More than likely memory prices will stop increasing after I make my next memory purchase. Usually works that way.

 

[konichiwa]

Nice nickname, WhoseNext. That was a great album....even though it was Who's Next. But that's alright.

 

[Tateman1]

Any ideas for when the memory prices might drop down a little?

 

[Shukaido]

I've been told that one of the reasons RAM is so expensive now is that about five years ago the memory manufacturers mis-judged the market and built too many manufacturing plants. For about three years prices were in the basement, everyone was losing money, and some companies (TI was one of them, weren't they?) got out of the market completely. No one was building new production capacity because everyone was just treading water.

In the last year, with increasing sales of PCs, MP3 players, PDAs and cell phones, the market for memory has improved. But because no one was expanding their manufacturing infrastructure over the previous few years, we have a memory shortage.

 

[Rankor]

When prices will go down? I would say January-February of 2001.

This will be after the Back-To-Schoolers get all their brand-new comps loaded w/RAM and after the Holiday Season.

If you need the RAM now, shop around for an acceptable price and grab it now. If you can wait, you may have to wait until late January-February of next year.

I estimate RAM prices will be at their highest at around late-September to November and will very, very gradually start to taper-off 'til late January.

 

[Nack]

Paid $92 each for my two PC100 128 modules almost two years ago, and I am STILL using them. I filled up the second PC with free 32MB PNY PC100 modules from the Worst Buy deal. My advice is to just wait for it to cycle down (or for another big promotion at one of the B&amp;M stores), and they buy good quality, and as fast as you can afford. Like most commodity products, memory price does run in cycles. I don't plan to buy any more memory until DDR SDRAM gets really CHEAP.

Nack