{"id":119966,"date":"2017-08-17T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119966"},"modified":"2017-08-17T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:55:33","slug":"massive-price-increase-for-graphics-card-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/119966-massive-price-increase-for-graphics-card-memory","title":{"rendered":"Massive price increase for graphics card memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of memory used in graphics cards has risen by 30%, according to sources speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20170816PD205.html?mod=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DigiTimes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The price of VRAM in August surged to $8.50 from its price of $6.50 last month.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the price increase is fueled by RAM manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix allocating VRAM production capacity to producing memory for servers and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Following the reallocation of manufacturing capacity, server RAM now accounts for 27% of Samsung\u2019s overall RAM capacity \u2013 up from 12%.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung currently supplies 55% of the world\u2019s VRAM, followed by SK Hynix at 35% and Micron at 10%.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/222295-amd-unveils-rx-vega-64-most-powerful-radeon-graphics-card-ever.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD unveils RX Vega 64 \u2013 most powerful Radeon graphics card ever<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of memory used in graphics cards has risen by 30%, according to sources speaking to\u00a0DigiTimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":84543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6292,1121],"class_list":["post-119966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-graphics-card","tag-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119968,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119966\/revisions\/119968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}