DRAM And NAND Prices Fall

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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/memory...38746.html

DRAMeXchange reported that DRAM prices over the current quarter dropped nearly 30 percent, which it said is the "sharpest decline in a single season since 2011," and that drop is expected to continue until consumer demand finally matches pace with supply.

The research group expected DRAM prices to fall 25 percent this quarter. But it turns out that "most DRAM suppliers are currently holding around a whopping six weeks' worth of inventory." (You know something's up when a research group says "whopping.")

This should result in cheaper memory kits, but DRAMeXchange said that Intel's ongoing CPU shortage has weakened demand for DRAM so much that even those low prices are unlikely to increase sales enough to start counteracting memory makers' oversupply issues.
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Samsung had previously said it would slow down memory production to help keep prices stable. Yet here they are in freefall anyway, and those efforts still weren't enough for the company to meet its earnings guidance for the most recent financial quarter.

It's clear that the memory market is changing. DRAMeXchange said that most contracts are now monthly instead of quarterly, prices are dropping faster than anyone expected, and consumer demand for new tech products has fallen for everything from memory to phones.

The upshot? At least DRAM should get cheaper and cheaper for consumers, too, so later this year might be a good time to make a few upgrades to your system. As long as you don't need a new CPU to enable those upgrades, of course. Then you're outta luck.