According to experts, we should not see a significant drop in the price of RAM in the near future.
According to analyzes by the TrendForce institute, the average price of RAM should no longer experience a significant drop in the coming months. This year, we had become accustomed to RAM and storage prices constantly falling. But that was before, because according to Trendforce, component manufacturers have decided to put an end to this trend.
According to company analysts, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, the three largest RAM manufacturers aimed at servers, mobiles, GPUs and PCs, have decided to slow down their RAM production. A decision which mechanically has the effect of increasing prices, or at least stabilizing them. So while RAM prices were down as much as 18% in the second quarter, experts predict that this year consumers should see a reduction in prices of around 5%, at most.
According to these experts, RAM prices are not going to drop much more in the next few months.
Will this strategy allow the big names in the sector to sell their stocks? Nothing is less certain, and it could even turn against them, if demand is still low. As Tom’s Hardware points out, it would only take one of these manufacturers agreeing to lower their prices (to empty their stocks), for this to lead to a drastic drop in prices for all brands. However, according to TrendForce, there are already many unsold DDR4 RAMs, with consumers increasingly shunning DDR4 to switch to DDR5, which is much faster and more efficient.
In addition, manufacturers buy a lot of GDDR6 for graphics cards in the GeForce RTX 40XX range from Nvidia, in particular. The Taiwanese company’s GPUs do not meet not the expected successbut either way, the signal is clear: it’s time to buy RAM if you want to update your somewhat aging PC.