DEMAND AND LACK OF SUPPLY have fiendiishly combined together to raise the price of double data rate (DDR) memory.Meanwhile the drought on 1066 RDRAM for Intel's 850E Rambus mobo seems set to vanish, after Samsung said it has turned the tap on modiule supplies.
Asian spot marketeers report that 16Mbit and 32Mbit DDR chips are likely to rise to $5 and $9 during November.
The major manufacturers have somehow managed to engineer a situation where even though they knew many months ago that DDR parts will be popular because of Intel's push into that marketplace, they haven't sufficient supplies to meet demand.
RDRAM modules, report memory site DRAM Exchange, have fallen for both 256MB and and 128MB modules, and Samsung said it is producing higher, 512MB densities of memory in the near future. Samsung claims that RDRAM and the Pentium 4 will show their true stripes when speeds of 3GHz and above arrive in the middle of the month. It claims it has 80 per cent of the worldwide RDRAM market. We're trying to figure out which firm has the other 20 per cent. It's sure as heck not Elpida.
DRAM Exchange also reports an upward trend on DDR pricesm while it seems DDR 333 memories still aren't as widely available as most of the industry expected earlier this year
News source: The Inq
