Memory becomes more expensive

According to DRAMeXchange, from mid-January started a planned 5% increase in purchase prices for DRAM-memory modules. Go to the manufacturers of these measures made ​​in the first place, a stable price decline observed over the last six months. Higher prices give producers in the hope that it is now able to stop the gradual loss of profit, which was observed recently.

At present, a slight price decline continued with the advent of the Lunar New Year as well as many Asian manufacturers are engaged in building up industrial capacity during the holidays. These factors do not allow prices to surge. However, the company Nanya Technology, said that prices will rise in a relatively short period of. The establishment of the new purchase price will go much faster due to the increased number of orders for DRAM- supplier in the near future.

Producers until finally raised prices, but last week the market value of the DDR2- 512 MB Memory Module has jumped by an average of 20%, the production of top manufacturers showed 10-15 % increase in price. The gradual introduction of new prices exclude such a large price fluctuations.