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

While sales have been increasing for a number of 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 DrameXchange, 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 inventories, the average contract price is set to rise slightly, ultimately leading to record sales for memory manufacturers in the third quarter of this year. The research bureau expects a flat increase for the fourth quarter of this year. It is true that these are contract prices, but 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 use of lpddr4 and the fact that 6 or 8 GB of ram is often used in high-quality Android devices are cited as causes of 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 investigating the price increases of, among other things, dram memory; a Chinese regulator expressed the suspicion of price fixing. Since the spring of 2016, the prices of dram have risen rapidly, with only since February this year some price reductions have been visible.

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