DDR3 price drop

[Vdubchaos]

Noticed past month or 2, DDR3 prices just plummeted. Also noticed that DDR2 prices have actually stayed the same.

What's the reasoning behind this.

Would like to get 2gb stick for my DDR2 rig but feel like I'm overpaying here....

 

[mv2devnull]

Not sure about "plummet"; looks quite steady descent from May onwards to me. I would assume that last winters depression and possible production issues have been coped with, and the sales for DDR3 are increasing. All that tends to drive the prices down.

As for DDR2, it starts to be a legacy product. Legacy memory types do not get price cuts. It is and has always been dirty expensive to upgrade old chips (compared to the current mainstream model).

 

[Arsynic]

Supply and demand.

 

[bamacre]

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=D34G1333SP

$50.49 for a 4GB DDR3 1333mhz module?

Damn!

 

[Yellowbeard]

The IC fabs are migrating to producing 2GB (256MB) die ICs. So, pricing on current ICs is dropping as they migrate to the new process. Same thing happened when we went from 64s to 128s.

 

[cixx79]

that's good news.....right?

 

[Yellowbeard]

that's good news.....right?

For a short time, it will be for those buying 2GB and smaller modules.

 

[Emulex]

i noticed it when the 8GB DDR3 ECC sticks leveled to the 4GB pricing (*2 obviously) the introduction of 1R 4G dimms using the higher density chips and these faster 2R 8GB dimms on price parity per gb.