Storage, memory price hike looms in SA
A fire at a DRAM factory in China, the weak Rand and another Chinese tax are pushing memory prices through the roof in South Africa
Memory price shocker for South Africa
Storage, memory price hike looms in SA
A fire at a DRAM factory in China, the weak Rand and another Chinese tax are pushing memory prices through the roof in South Africa
The fire has nothing to do with the rising prices, its just an excuse on top of that the rand is actually strengthening nicely at the moment.
Its just an excuse to push the prices up.
The fire at the Hynix factory was no where near the manufacturing/production lines. The fire was in the rear of the building at the packaging section, it has no effect on the pricing of the ram or any other products.
What a lol
Joker is right http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...fter-fire.htmlOriginally Posted by The Joker
The fire has nothing to do with the rising prices, its just an excuse on top of that the rand is actually strengthening nicely at the moment.
Its just an excuse to push the prices up.
The fire at the Hynix factory was no where near the manufacturing/production lines. The fire was in the rear of the building at the packaging section, it has no effect on the pricing of the ram or any other products.
What a lol
I hope they don't jack the prices up, seriously this is getting ridicules
I am not really surprised to see this, i was expecting a possible 40-45% increase in the cost of ram, i am sure it will get close to the 40% mark in the next week or so.
Any excuse to inflate it seems.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis
This and only this.
Well they need to find some way to do it. RAM manufacturers have been gouging themselves because they flooded the market with too many cheap DDR3 chips and couldn't make back their money because there was not a mass upgrade movement for Ivy Bridge or Windows 8.
Western Digital wasn't even affected that much by the Thailand floods yet they still dropped their warranties to two years and raised the prices of drives for a short while to cover costs. The shrinking PC market means that manufacturers have to find new avenues for profit. Everything rests on four technologies coming out next year for anyone to see any gains in the market:
1) Haswell-E/Broadwell with DDR4 compatibility
2) 14nm process chips for SSDs and memory chips (DDR4 plays a role here as well)
3) AMD Kaveri APUs to help sell high-frequency memory kits
4) 20nm processes in both TSMC and Global Foundries to enable AMD and Nvidia to make their next-next-gen GPUs on the new process.
That being said, the fire definitely impedes Hynix's ability to ship out products like they used to, so supply will be a bit constrained from their side, at least. Samsung and Elpida are going to be seeing more customers for a little while.
I'm not surprised. About a year ago I read an article about memory prices being so low that the author feared it could drop below cost. At the time I thought to myself, mindful of the HDD factory flooding: "44, how long till we see a flood in a memory factory to boost the price?"
Guess I got my answer now.
One day, I'll grow up and become responsible.
Probably not today.
They still need to make money. Whether or not they should make an excuse is the question...
How long is this going to last?
Luckily I'm not looking to buy any at the moment...
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