RAM prices about to go crazy??

I dont think it will have massive effects, might push prices up for a bit but its not as bad as the flooding was for hard drives, while hynix is a big player samsung, micron, psc and others are still on schedule for ddr4 role out
 
pgi947 said:
Thanks for the honest update :)

So prices should settle a little after 45 days or so?

Better get some ram and a gpu ordered.
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No idea, if the factory is down for more than a month, then the prices will settle in about 45 days at prices about 15-50% higher than they are now, if you can call that settling.......
 
Last time I checked, Hynix's share of the DRAM market was around 20-25%, so it's not surprising to see prices change in response to the incident. Apparently the smoke from the factory is also posing major health problems for the locals as well.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Good job i bought that 670 for 161 quid a few weeks back then. :) Or would that not have been effected by a price hike?
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Old already built stock on clearance, would not be effected as NVIDIA no longer produce them.

A disaster like this will only effect products which are still current and in production.
 
so 15% of their production from the 30s% market they have, that will be max 5% of the global total.

NO Mem makers work with a safe margin of less than 10%

So in real world this 5% wouldn't affect the demand, but for sure it will increase the prices because people will take advantage of that plus people in panic buying all current stock making the price raise.
 
Kinda lol that there's a thread about this in the memory forum (as you would expect) plus an additional one in the GPU forum (ok GDDR5 prices I guess) and now a third one here, will the prices of L2/3 cache really take that much of an impact? :P
 
Gibbo said:
No idea, if the factory is down for more than a month, then the prices will settle in about 45 days at prices about 15-50% higher than they are now, if you can call that settling.......
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Well, on the plus side I suppose that's much better than what happened to the HDD market after the floods.
 
Have any one the retailers bumped up their prices overnight? One that I've been watching for a few months is actually lower today (for 8GB SODIMMs DDR3) than a month ago.
 
A further update:-

1) all suppliers would not accept any orders before having updates on the pricing next week. But the price would be much higher till then. :(
2) being the biggest customer to Hynix, HP switched all orders to Kingston. This caused the shortage to worldwide instantly.


So massive panic right now and the prices are rocketing like crazy, if this calms down next week they will settle but unfortunately at new highs. If the problem is as bad as some of making out then pricing could get truly crazy.......
 
A further update:-

1) all suppliers would not accept any orders before having updates on the pricing next week. But the price would be much higher till then. :(
2) being the biggest customer to Hynix, HP switched all orders to Kingston. This caused the shortage to worldwide instantly.


So massive panic right now and the prices are rocketing like crazy, if this calms down next week they will settle but unfortunately at new highs. If the problem is as bad as some of making out then pricing could get truly crazy.......
 
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