Have u wondered... why ram prices drop so much..............
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4731559.html"Il Ung Kim, a marketing vice president, is the sixth Samsung executive to agree to a prison sentence in the probe of price fixing for dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, the most common type of memory chips used in personal computers. Samsung is the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips."
And the more juicy piece of meat-
"Samsung, Elpida Memory Inc., Infineon Technologies AG and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have all pleaded guilty for their roles in the scheme and were ordered to pay about $729 million in fines. The fine for Samsung and its subsidiary totaled $300 million."
Even Micron will have to lower its ram prices, because binned Elpida chips, Hynix performance IC's and Samsung binned chips will be roughly $95 shipped for 2GB kits. I'd expect to see Micron D9 based memory in the sub $130 range soon for 2GB kits.April 19, 2007, 4:53PM
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It was because newer one are arriving in the market really fast..
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lawsuit la...-.-
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the price will slowly decrease to a stable point for another few months.
then ddr3 will soon flood the market so that they can sell ddr3 ram at higher prices. -
The price fixing isn't so obvious, because the price fall is expected, especially when technologies is moving forward.
Actually, I've never expected price fixing, although I did notice that the RAM prices fall too much. -
Hmm... after this case, I'm afraid that the prices might be up due to uncertainties. As a result of the fixing, companies producing memory chips have to force their prices down as well. They might take this chance to bring the price back to what is expected. Until DDR3 is released (or maybe newer RAM standards), the possibility of RAM prices dropping again is 50-50.Originally posted by manyu882:the price will slowly decrease to a stable point for another few months.
then ddr3 will soon flood the market so that they can sell ddr3 ram at higher prices. -
yea.. firstly i thought of that too but who knows actually the real reason is this...
SO..... dont buy ram now