Gartner: DRAM glut will cause 42 per cent price decline this year

[HEXUS]

And this oversupply is expected to extend until H2 2020, thinks the research company.

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[LeSWiS]

I might need to stack up then....

[azrael-]

I seriously don't think I could get those 64 GB DDR4 ECC memory much cheaper than I already have. By "cheap" I mean approx. GBP 82.50 per 16 GB. Which incidentally is about GBP 33 cheaper than the 16 GB DDR3 ECC memory that I bought at the end of 2012 for my current (and soon to be replaced) rig.

[pp05]

When is DDR5 expected?

[dfour]

Weird I read a couple of days ago that there was a price war between korea and some where else and the wholesale prices of dram had jumped 20% which was going to push the price of all dram and ssds up very soon.

[loftie]

Magic 8Ball, will there be a fire in the DRAM factories in the near future?

*shake shake shake*

"Signs point to yes."

[DevDrake]

Weird I read a couple of days ago that there was a price war between korea and some where else and the wholesale prices of dram had jumped 20% which was going to push the price of all dram and ssds up very soon.

By the logic, isn't the price war lowering the prices?

[Tunnah]

Weird I read a couple of days ago that there was a price war between korea and some where else and the wholesale prices of dram had jumped 20% which was going to push the price of all dram and ssds up very soon.

By the logic, isn't the price war lowering the prices?

It's a war who can go higher. DUH.

[Pleiades]

Japan and South Korea are having (another) spat about WW2 compensation and sovereignty issues, with trade in electronic components and chemicals being used as a proxy battlespace. Near future ramifications are hard to ascertain for sure; same with China/US tension, oil prices, currency devaluations, Brexit, etc. Predicting anything for certain under these circumstances seems an exercise in futility, but that's what analysts are (highly) paid for I guess. It'll be interesting to see how accurate this is by the end of the year.

[Tunnah]

Japan and South Korea are having (another) spat about WW2 compensation and sovereignty issues, with trade in electronic components and chemicals being used as a proxy battlespace. Near future ramifications are hard to ascertain for sure; same with China/US tension, oil prices, currency devaluations, Brexit, etc. Predicting anything for certain under these circumstances seems an exercise in futility, but that's what analysts are (highly) paid for I guess. It'll be interesting to see how accurate this is by the end of the year.

Ah, so a war on costs, not a war on end product pricing ? Makes sense.

Why does that sound sarcastic. It wasn't meant to be.

[ETR316]

I wish we had DDR5 and it's platform already.

[Corky34]

Why, it's not like DDR4 brought much to the table, yes frequencies went up but so did CL numbers so effectively latency remained in the same 7-8ns window or thereabouts.

[Jimrummy2395]

After the price gouging, it's nice to see the prices continue to tumble. Will probably pick up another 16gb soon.

[Percy1983]

My next build was planned for 64gb, with prices it got changed to 32gb and then to don't bother.

Looks like 64gb is back on, can see some kits at prices I can accept already.

In many respects it also pushed my 1800x plan to a 3700x so not all bad I suppose.