{"id":120758,"date":"2017-09-19T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120758"},"modified":"2017-09-19T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:37:30","slug":"dram-to-register-40-price-increase-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/120758-dram-to-register-40-price-increase-in-2017","title":{"rendered":"DRAM to register 40% price increase in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report published by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icinsights.com\/news\/bulletins\/The-Adversarial-Relationship-Of-The-DRAM-User-And-Producer-Continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IC Insights<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0shows that 2017 will register a 40% increase in the price of DRAM modules.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the largest ever annual increase for the DRAM market, and is reportedly due to last year\u2019s oversupply of DRAM.<\/p>\n<p>Suppliers quickly bought up DRAM at low prices and are now charging higher prices for the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are bringing in record profits amid a NAND and DRAM shortage, and are expected to add DRAM wafer capacity to protect their market share going forward, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>This could cause DRAM prices to fall to more \u201creasonable figures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DRAM-ASP-2017.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1808005629\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229647\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DRAM-ASP-2017.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DRAM-ASP-2017.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DRAM-ASP-2017-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DRAM-ASP-2017-595x400.jpg 595w\" alt=\"DRAM ASP 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/229359-geforce-gt-1030-vs-radeon-rx-550-budget-graphics-card-showdown.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 550 \u2013 Budget graphics card showdown<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report published by\u00a0IC Insights\u00a0shows that 2017 will register a 40% increase in the price of DRAM modules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":92905,"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":[1181,1121,1435,24287],"class_list":["post-120758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-dram","tag-memory","tag-samsung","tag-sk-hynix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120758","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=120758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}