‘Dram prices will rise slightly in third quarter of 2018’

While sales have been increasing for several quarters now, there is a good chance that the average dram price for dram buyers will rise slightly in the third quarter of 2018 due to increasing demand in the run-up to the high season.

According to DramaXchange, a research firm that focuses on the memory market, dram bit output increased by 3.2 percent in the second quarter of this year. As the agency expects demand to build up stocks to increase, the average contract price will increase slightly, ultimately leading to record revenue for memory manufacturers in the third quarter of this year. The research firm expects a flat increase for the fourth quarter of this year. Although these are contract prices, memory manufacturers usually pass them on to the consumer.

The price increase for the third quarter is mainly caused by the demand for dram for servers and mobile devices. For example, the increased adoption of lpddr4 and the fact that 6 or 8 GB of ram is often used in high-end Android devices are cited as reasons for the price increase. However, Vram will drop in price, partly due to the decreased interest in mining crypto coins.

Samsung is the market leader in this memory market, followed by SK Hynix and Micron. At the end of last year it appeared that China was considering conducting research into the price increases of dram memory; a Chinese regulator expressed the suspicion of price fixing. Since the spring of 2016, dram prices have been rising rapidly, with only some price reductions being visible since February this year.

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