The reason which affected the price of SSD is that once the available stock is exhausted, manufacturers do not need to lower the price to be able to sell it, so they have adjusted their production according to demand.
DDR5 memory will be more expensive
In the case of DDR5 memory, the reason is not related to stock, but to Artificial intelligence. In recent weeks we have published several news in which HK Hynix and Micron claim to have sold all HBM memory production not only for 2024, but also for 2025.
While it is true that HBM memory is used in the manufacturing of GPU for AI servers due to its high bandwidth, this should not initially affect the price of DDR5 memory.
However, seeing how much the demand for this type of memory is growing, many manufacturers, seeing the excess demand, are changing their production plans and, instead of focusing on manufacturing DDR5 memory, take it upon themselves to manufacture memory HBM.
This means that there will be less availability of DDR5 memory in the market, which is associated with a price increase from manufacturers, a common trade move when demand exceeds available stock.
In addition, large customers of HBM memorythey are willing to pay more to satisfy their needs. So, as the Americans would say, it is a win-win for memory manufacturers.
At the beginning of the year, the analysis firm TrendForce affirmed that the DRAM memory prices
According to this same media, the demand for HBM memories, particularly with the version HBM3E It will achieve growth of 200% by 2024 and 400% by 2025.
What other components will see their prices increase?
At the moment we have already seen how the price of SSDs increases little by little without pause. The next PC component to undergo price changes will be DDR5 memory, but are they the only ones? Well, everything indicates not.
This year, both are expected Nvidia as AMD present your new generation of graphics cards. Everything seems to indicate that the price will remain more or less the same with some usual variations since it is a new generation since none of its components have undergone a price change, at least at the time of writing. This item.
If the price of GDDR6 memory is affected in the coming months, there is no doubt that the price of the new generation of graphics will increase. If, in addition, it has the GDDR7 memory that was officially presented a few months ago, it is clear that the graphics that implement it will be more expensive.