Oversupply Sends DRAM Prices To One-Year Low 161
alphadogg writes "DRAM chip prices reached a one-year low on Tuesday and approached their cheapest ever due to a post-holiday oversupply. The cheap memory chips are pushing PC prices lower too, a Taiwan-based trading platform said.
Prices for commodity 1-Gbit DDR3 DRAM chips dropped to an average of $0.84 per unit from historic highs around $2.80 in April and May last year, said Ivan Lin, publicist and editor with DRAMeXchange. Prices hit a record low of $0.81 per chip in March 2009, according to the exchange's daily surveys."
Re:What Do You Do When Demand Is Satisfied? (Score:4, Informative)
Not to mention illegal. :P
Re:$2.80 to $0.84? (Score:5, Informative)
That's probably for the chip, before it's soldered onto a DIMM, before it's even left the factory.
You'd be amazed how much money needs to be spent to turn it into something you can actually plug into your PC.
Re:$2.80 to $0.84? (Score:5, Informative)