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DRAM prices are set to bounce
ELPIDA MEMORY CEO Yukio Sakamoto has just popped back from visiting his fortune-teller and claims that DRAM prices will bounce back in January.
Apparently the tarot card the Sun was crossed by the Four of Cups which means that memory supply will run short of global DRAM demand early in the upcoming year.
Talking to Digitimes, Sakamoto projected that DRAM demand bit growth will reach 50 per cent in 2010, outpacing worldwide supply bit growth of 40 per cent.
These improved market conditions will help stabilise DRAM prices which will see prices fluctuate between $1.80 and $2.50 next year.
Elpida plans to migrate to 40nm-class process technology in 2010 from its 65nm node process, so Sakamoto hopes that things will get a bit better. µ
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This is not good news for us!
Does nobody remember five months ago when DDR2-800 was $8 for a 1GB Dimm, and 2GB modules were $19.99?
I'm regretting not buying more of the stuff in July, my supply is running out :(
6GB of fast ram for £100 is cheap. That's less than £20 per gb. I think RAM is cheap right now.
The worst price at the moment is Intel's X58 and i9xx series cpu's. If they were lower I could talk myself into buying one! ;-)
elpida will go the way of the dinosaur.
They are toast and talking up prices to stay alive. Samsung/Hynix/Micron will destroy them.
I kept waiting for prices to drop (as your past article implied) and never saw that happen