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RAM prices about to go crazy??
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30% from one fab.. I find that hard to believe. Any company would have contingency allowances based on risk to ensure this kind of thing doesn't expose the markets.
Would this effect PS4 and Xbox one production?
Would this effect PS4 and Xbox one production?
Damn... Wish I had bought 16gb of my RAM, paid 40quid for 8gb now the same sticks are 120? seriously?
Same thing has happend to DDR2 when DDR3 came out, it became stupidly expensive shortly after costing next to nothing.
Wish I had foreseen this ..
Same thing has happend to DDR2 when DDR3 came out, it became stupidly expensive shortly after costing next to nothing.
Wish I had foreseen this ..
Soldato
spot price rose 10% overnight..
Does not sound that bad either
"Hynix said the fire raged for more than an hour. After an initial assessment, the world's No. 2 maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips said it found no "material" damage to fabrication gear in its clean room at the plant, which produces around 12 to 15 percent of global computer memory chips."
Does not sound that bad either
"Hynix said the fire raged for more than an hour. After an initial assessment, the world's No. 2 maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips said it found no "material" damage to fabrication gear in its clean room at the plant, which produces around 12 to 15 percent of global computer memory chips."
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Soldato
Nvidia charge enough as it is to compensate for any increase in production price. If GDDR5 is in short supply maybe they should stop churning out revisions of the same architecture and do something better with it.
Hang on, that rise from £40 to £120 isn't because of this fire!
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According to some sources, despite the pictures we've seen, the fire wasn't as bad as the some reports suggest and was put out in hours. Damage apparently is minimal and recovery turnaround should be that long. Since stoacks are up, thee shoudln't be a problem.
Of course, this could be the company issuing a statement to protect their share values but then it could be the markets over reacting and suppliers making a quick cash in.. or both.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/04/dont_panic_says_hynix_china_fab_explosion_is_no_big_deal/
Of course, this could be the company issuing a statement to protect their share values but then it could be the markets over reacting and suppliers making a quick cash in.. or both.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/04/dont_panic_says_hynix_china_fab_explosion_is_no_big_deal/
Strange how similar the OP article picture is to this 3 year old one 
http://www.zaman.com.tr/dunya_bukreste-korkunc-yangin_988251.html
http://www.zaman.com.tr/dunya_bukreste-korkunc-yangin_988251.html
Strange how similar the OP article picture is to this 3 year old one
http://www.zaman.com.tr/dunya_bukreste-korkunc-yangin_988251.html
Ha, that's interesting!
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Just a standard set of photos from the press library I expect.
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oh dear 
This is not the right way to look at it. The price paid for existing stock is not a major determinator for the retail price. The price of replacement stock is more important.
Has anyone seen any retailers hiking the price of RAM from yesterday morning to today - I haven't.
At OcUK we follow the market pricing, irrelevant of our stock cost. If we have very low price stock, but a high retail price what it does mean is that we do promotions quite often at a mind blowing price.
For example earlier this week we did a one day special on Avexir Blue LED 8GB kits at £49.99 inc. VAT.
But sell price as a rule is determined by re-buy price, but promotions are always a possibility and done often.
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This is well interesting.
I am so curious how bad the fire actually was.
Maybe sabotage to get prices up who knows.
I am so curious how bad the fire actually was.
Maybe sabotage to get prices up who knows.
Doubtful, prices had more than doubled since feb/march and had settled.
Soldato
It's amazing how prices fluctuate so much for RAM even before these types of events. I January I bought a set of 2x4 Sammy greens for just over £30...now £120!
