The DRAM memory market is up!
Thursday, March 25th, 2010As the market continues to move up, coincidentally a brief power outage at some Samsung Electronics memory chip lines in Gilheung, Gyeonggi Province Wednesday is expected to push up prices of computer and flash memory chips in the short term, analysts said. 128×8 1Gb DDR2 and DDR3 components are over $3.00 now while 2GB modules move over 10 percent in the past week. Supply is short and tier OEMs have lines down. Signals of prices approaching $60.00 for 2GB SODIMMs are apparent for DDR2 and DDR3.Online retailers are moving up as well. Jumps on eTT based 2GB PC-6400 200-PIN SODIMM have move up $10.00 per stick on some sites.The 256×4 DDR2 component has traded well this past week. 4GB FBDIMM and Registered are becoming short.