With not much better to do during the COVID-19 lockdown, many PC owners decided to apply their time in giving their systems a bit of an upgrade. And, when it comes to ...
August 20, 2020 at 10:40 am by Mike Sanders
DDR5 The next-generation of high-performance memory isn’t here just yet. However, we certainly hoped it would be. The jump from DDR3 to DDR4 brought higher speeds, ...
April 27, 2019 at 11:14 am by Peter Donnell
Oversupply Led to Sharp Fall in Pricing After several years of high memory prices, they are finally falling down. So much so that according to Micron, it has lead to over 20% ...
March 23, 2019 at 4:06 pm by Ron Perillo
Samsung 1z-nm Earlier today, Samsung announced that it has developed a 3rd-generation 10-nanometer-class (1z-nm) eight-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 DRAM. Of course, this makes them the ...
March 21, 2019 at 1:52 pm by Peter Donnell
Maintaining Chip Competitiveness Memory manufacturers have been enjoying a long period of increased prices (and profits) for some time now. For SK Hynix, they are using this ...
February 22, 2019 at 5:44 pm by Ron Perillo
Higher-Capacity High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) Most users familiar with graphics card are familiar with HBM2 (2nd Gen High-Bandwidth Memory) technology. It is used in ...
December 19, 2018 at 5:31 pm by Ron Perillo
DRAM Prices Expected To Continue Downward Trend Over the past couple of weeks, a number of reports have come out about DRAM prices. In the past number of years, prices have ...
October 25, 2018 at 8:40 am by Samuel Wan
DRAM Prices Projected to Fall 5% As an essential part of every computer, DRAM is always in demand. Overall the past while, prices have stayed steady except when unexpected ...
October 12, 2018 at 8:27 am by Samuel Wan
Samsung Scaling Back Production As Demand Eases As an essential component, DRAM memory is a good indicator of the overall computing market. With only 3 major market players, ...
October 5, 2018 at 9:08 am by Samuel Wan
Micron Will Invest $3 Billion Into Virginia Over the past decade, we have seen an impressive uptake for DRAM and NAND memory products. To keep up with demand, all major ...
September 12, 2018 at 8:27 am by Samuel Wan
RAM Prices Could (Finally) Be Set To Drop Over the last 2 years, we have slowly but surely seen RAM prices continue to increase. Given that RAM was traditionally one of the ...
July 27, 2018 at 3:59 pm by Mike Sanders Stolen Trade Secrets Boise, Idaho-based Micron is alleging that a Chinese DRAM foundry startup has possession of stolen trade secrets. In fact, they are alleging that the ...
June 26, 2018 at 10:56 pm by Ron Perillo
Ups and Downs of NAND and DRAM One thing that is reliably certain in the PC market, is that memory and storage prices can vary greatly from period to period. As it currently ...
June 26, 2018 at 9:11 pm by Ron Perillo
Anti-Trust Regulators Launch Investigation News of China looking into a possible price-fixing collusion between DRAM manufacturers surfaced last year. China’s National ...
June 25, 2018 at 11:30 pm by Ron Perillo
China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department is looking into the possibility of NAND price fixing according to the China Daily. The ...
December 28, 2017 at 4:31 pm by Ron Perillo
