Don't Think That RAM Prices Won't Continue to Rise: The Current Prices Are Only Temporary!

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TECH NEWS – This is just the beginning. The worst is yet to come, and the memory crisis will continue.

In the RAM market, the price curve has flattened out recently, but this is not a reason to be optimistic. While we hope memory modules will become more affordable for consumers, recent price trends and the state of the supply chain suggest prices will only rise in 2026. Watching RAM price trends on PCPartPicker, we’ve noticed that prices for both DDR4 and DDR5 have stabilized. There may be many reasons for this price movement, but concluding that the memory shortage has ended is certainly premature – at least in today’s world.

Jukan Choi, an analyst at Citrini, has addressed this issue, saying that the trend of stabilizing RAM prices will only last a short time, as suppliers are now trying to reduce inventory to generate cash flow. “Industry analysts attribute these movements largely to inventory turnover and cash flow needs ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. An increasing number of distributors are selling existing inventory at lower prices to improve cash flow, which has resulted in modest pullbacks from peak levels,” Choi said.

Although the rise in memory prices has slowed temporarily, it seems that the market expects another wave of price increases. This is not a hasty statement: the rise in DRAM contract prices suggests that general-purpose products will be more expensive in the future. As we recently reported, DRAM suppliers are signaling a 125% increase in quarterly DRAM prices due to the ongoing memory shortage. And since the industry is not kind enough to keep prices stable, we will soon see price increases for DDR5 and DDR4 modules as well. Supply chain disruptions for consumer products that depend on DRAM are occurring, as we predicted. This has already manifested as product launch delays and significant price increases. However, since the build-out of AI infrastructure is not going to stop anytime soon, demand for DDR5, SOCAMM, LPDDR5, and HBM will increase quarter after quarter.

The situation in the PC industry is disappointing, but big tech companies are not going to stop spending anytime soon due to the huge growth of AI. They are unlikely to be concerned about how this will affect gamers…

Source: WCCFTech, PCPartPicker, Ctee

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