Why are memory prices rising (especially on DDR)?

[giancarlo_n]

Plain and Simple!:D

Why exactly have the DDR SDRAM prices gone up? Is this a simple periodic raise? Did another Taiwanese Silicon Chip manuf. go down in flames? PC-133 SDRAM has also gone up, BTW. It took a little later than DDR SDRAM prices to go up, but it has already started...Turn the coin around: RAMBUS prices falling then? It is all due to royalty contracts stuff? The i850 will still reign king of the hill bandwidth-wise, but wait till the Dual Channel DDR Controller from Intel comes...call it the i8##(kick@#$%0 model).

Can somebody just please explain that to me?:eek:

BTW, I can't wait to see when AMD goes 0.13um...That 533MHz gap might be a little bit shorter, if not completely eliminated...I'm a proud owner of 2 PIII machines, and my bro's 1.2GHz AMD is rockin, but then again, we must try and be a little objective about these things...

[SaveYourself]

Simple supply vs. demand.

If DDR is more in demand, but the chip makers are only turning out so many at a time, then the price is going to go up. The price will again fall when supply equals the demand, unless the hand of Intel is in this to make DDR not seem like quite the economical choice.

This might be a good time to go for RDRAM until DDR comes back down in price.

[muchmark]

Actually the prices of memory were selling below cost for most of the year all the manufactures were loosing money don’t hold your breath on the notion prices will drop.