Here's Why RAM Prices Won't Be Dropping Anytime Soon
Nikkei Asia has some bad news for anyone hoping for RAM prices to fall anytime soon: The outlet reported on Friday that the global shortage of memory chips will likely continue until around 2027. According to Nikkei, U.S. and South Korean memory suppliers are raising DRAM production, but are only going to be able to meet about 60% of the demand. What's more, the current conflicts in the Middle East are making electricity and other relevant goods more expensive. Even Samsung, which is launching a fourth RAM plant this year, won't be at full-scale production until at least 2027, if not later. The memory crisis is ongoing Part of the problem is split production needs: Samsung's fourth plant needs to make logic chips for computing as well, which means it can't use all of its resources to develop memory chips. And while the company is also building a fifth plant, that location will be designated for producing advanced high-bandwidth memory (HMB), a specific type of memory...
