Selasa, 21 Agustus 2012

Memory Is About as Cheap As It Can Get


If someone had been hurled into today's present three years ago, someone that would suddenly need to build a new PC from scratch, they would probably gawk at seeing the prices of memory kits.

8 GB DDR3-1333 kits, for instance, sell for under $40 / 32-40 Euro, something that would have come across as absurd back then. That goes for both desktop and laptop products.

Thus, this is a good time for people to go out and buy memory modules and kits.

But here is the paradox: the reason prices are so low is because people haven't been buying RAM.

In fact, manufacturers have had to deliberately reduce the manufacturing rate, just to force a sort of balance between supply and demand.

We could understand if high-end products didn't sell all that much. They never have too large a customer base anyway. Unfortunately, mainstream and low-end DRAM products have the same demand problem.

One major supplier of such things has already bitten the dust. Since, according to Kingston, prices can't really fall any lower at this point, the chances are rising that the number of DRAM manufacturers will thin out even more.

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