Ram Prices Crumbling

[Bozo Galora]

$69 and dropping, 256 PC2100 crucial, in case you havent noticed
I'm predicting $30 RAM in 3-4 weeks.

 

[bacillus]

hope you're right!

 

[Bozo Galora]

i'm tempted to stock up, but then theres DDR333 and DDR400 to think of
theres already a review up for Crucial 128mb DDR333 ram

 

[Degenerate]

Just to add. RDRAM prices are cheap as. In fact, from sharkyextreme.com,

PC133 CAS3 128mb - $26
PC133 CAS2 128mb - $41
PC800 128mb - $30
PC2100 128mb - $40
PC2400 128mb - $55

PC2400 256mb - $67
PC2100 256mb - $74
PC800 256mb - $63

 

[MadRat]

The bottom always falls out of the old-but-not-dead standard when they scale up production of faster memory. When DDR production ramped up we had a glut of PC133 that they had to dump on the market. All of the stockpiles of the older memory had an adverse affect on the entire market. The more people bought of the old standard (PC133) the less they bought the new standard (PC1600) hence a glut in both markets...

On a side note: RDRAM has been pinched by the DDR market lately and you've seen the price plummet in the former market. If RDRAM had been pushed by OEMs the latter would be cheaper. It just goes to show the odd quirks of how market forces work on the macro scale.

 

[ElFenix]

ram manufacturers seem to be able to switch production very quickly so that ram prices track whatever the highest margin product is assuming the cost is approx the same for each product.

 

[herbage11]

here is to hopeing it falls alot by the time I buy my ststem in June

 

[m1ke101]

<< i'm tempted to stock up, but then theres DDR333 and DDR400 to think of >>



that's the stuff that i want..*drool*

 

[erub]

yeah, i'd be happy to be able to buy either 512 MB of RDRAM or DDR for my P4 system coming in June for around $80. That would be awesome

 

[microAmp]

<< hope you're right! >>

 

[Ausm]

Yeah I want to buy 256 meg of pc2100 for 35 bux

Ausm

 

[zzzz]

I hope the rdram goes down in price as well...

 

[Ionizer86]

Not to crush our hopes, but has anyone else noted that the 256mb SDRAM modules all cost a lot more than $69? Maybe they mistyped the price of the DDR, so order now

 

[ObiDon]

ARGH! I need PC133 or ECC PC2100! :|

 

[arcas]

Just goes to show that you shouldn't panic when you see prices for computer components skyrocket temporarily. Those folks who didn't need any more RAM but still bought some a few weeks/months ago because they were afraid prices would continue to go up are probably kicking themselves now.

Probably won't see prices go as low as they were last year since I think the whole industry realizes that such price wars are suicide but price increases due to supply shortages where there's ample competition are almost always temporary. If you don't need the component right away and prices are skyrocketing because of shortages, it's almost always a safe bet to hold off purchasing.

 

[j@cko]

If the price drops to where it used to be, the first thing I am gonna do is buy WHOLE BUNCH of RAMs.

 

[x86]

WHAT THE HELL!!?!!??! It was >$90 two weeks ago!!!! The RAM price fluxuation is simply amazing. Then again, it's all supply and demand.

-x86

 

[murphy55d]

<< If the price drops to where it used to be, the first thing I am gonna do is buy WHOLE BUNCH of RAMs. >>



I second that.

 

[x86]

Listen up!!!

ALL WE NEED TO DO IS BOYCOTT RAM FOR A FEW ANOTHER MONTH OR TWO. THAT WILL CAUSE THEM TO LOWER THE PRICES EVEN MORE.

-x86

 

[johndoe52]

Hope they fall some more so I can pick up some 512 sticks.

 

[Bozo Galora]

well, it appears the people in this thread missed my other RAM post of Apr 2, i.e that RAM prices ARE going
to go back to the previous dirt cheap prices (or at least according to Digit Times)

Thusly:

DRAM Prices May Fall
DigiTimes Reports :

The recent serious shortage of 64Mbit SDRAM for low-end graphics cards is about to take a sharp turn in the
opposite direction. Samsung and Hynix are poised to flood Taiwan with 64Mbit DRAM as they empty their
inventories in preparation for replacing the product with 128Mbit DRAM. The move could threaten Taiwan's
DRAM prices. Samsung will reportedly throw an estimated one million 64Mbit DRAM chips into Taiwan's
market. Hynix did not release a precise estimate but claimed that its figure would rival Samsung?s.

The shortage of 64Mbit DRAM mainly stemmed from PC manufacturers preferring low-end graphics cards this
quarter, as well as strong PC sales worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2001 relative to a year earlier.
However, as the PC industry enters the traditional slow season, and as PC manufacturers upgrade to
128Mbit DRAM in graphics cards, Samsung and Hynix are also hurriedly clearing out their 64Mbit inventory,
leaving Taiwan in danger of crashing DRAM prices. In the past few months, 64Mbit DRAM prices have shot
up from less than US$1 to US$2.40-2.60 per chip. However, with the DRAM deluge from Samsung and Hynix
hanging over Taiwan, DRAM suppliers predict that prices will fall to their original level of less than US$1 per
chip.
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I might also report that the recent earthquake may cause a one week speedbump to this as there was
oven based chip loss to the manuf. plants - it was not the "little damage" variety as erroneously reported
in the news.

 

[Budman]

I was gonna bite the bullet & get me an other 256meg stick or ddr but now I think I will wait & get a 512meg stick in a month or so.

 

[anthrax]

I would really doubt you will see $30 ram prices............the prices you saw last year where the result of gross over production...and in this economic climate...it is unlikly some one is goin to overproduce by the scale we saw last year.....i don't think inventories in the big memory manufactures are as big as what they used to be..not with all the producitoion cut backs we have had.......

 

[spanky]

<< hope you're right! >>



me too

 

[j@cko]

OMG.. the price has gone up again.....