You missed a word in the article, or mis-read it. It is not said that the "price" of DDR2 has gone up. It is specifically said the "spot price". Check out what the spot price is and you'll see where you misunderstood.

from my understanding DDR2 is selling at a loss atm. and the price has been dropping due to large stocks and small demand.

here's a graph with the evolution of DDR2 prices:
http://www.hardware.fr/news/10028/ddr2-chute-50-1-mois.html

1.it sucks when companies do this

2.i dont know where you got this information from, a quick 1 minute real world test shows that memeory prices have not gone up, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134636

3. memory is so cheap that there needs to be 4 gigayte sticks being made now or well be stuck at 2/4 gigs of memory forever

This isn't the first time the memory men have done this. Heck, if a guy were a conspiracy theorist, one might think that they just want a slice of the pie made of money. After all, we just spent the better part of a year on the business end of OPECs gun of inflation. So, if a must-have commodity like fuel can enjoy a little self-induced inflation, then why not a (mostly) luxury item like PC memory.

What, Cartel and price fixing laws do not apply here?

Does anyone else see a problem with deliberatly stagnating technology?

I also tend to agree that most of our economic misfortune is due to companies being to damn greedy

This is just another way for the industry at large to screw the consumer. They have reduced production not because they couldn’t pawn-off the cheap chips on the open market but because of greed and a desire for a ridiculously healthy bottom line just like the oil industry. Here in California corporate farmers do the same thing to drive the price of crops up; they will plow under 2 fields of crops for every 2 they actually harvest to ensure high premiums for their blessed fruits and vegetables.