Why are RAM prices dropping?

[Accipiter22]

So I built my rig a few months back, and now am building one for a friend.....at the time I got a gig of corsair value select ram (vs512mb400) for 138.00....today I could get it for 81.00...why the drastic drop? I double checked, I have the model #'s right and everything...so it definetly dropped like 40% in 3 months...

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Oversupply and lower demand = lower prices and memory companies worried

 

[amheck]

Same reason I bought a 4 meg stick for $100 back in college

 

[ShadowBlade]

why are you compaining

 

[Accipiter22]

I'm not....so is this about as low as the prices are going to get?

 

[ai42]

Well never say never when it comes to TSOP RAM prices remember back in the PC133 days prices were pushed so low almost nobody was making money. BGA RAM of course is the "in" thing with DDR2 and graphics cards pretty much exclusively using it nowdays. So what do you do if your a TSOP manufactuer? lower the prices to get people to buy off "old" stock until you get your BGA stuff ramped up.

Of course of all the computer components RAM chips are by far the easiest to manufacture and there is very little differance beween a Micron RAM chip or a Samsung one. So RAM TSOPs and BGAs are traded daily on a stock market like system so the price varies daily.

So predicting prices of RAM isn't really possible because there are so many factors involved. You can somewhat assume downward/upward trends but thats about it.