Sales of desktop and laptop computers fell dramatically after the pandemic. During the COVID, many teams were renewed, due to teleworking, but now this time is over. According to the latest published data, the SSD price dropped 34%while the price of graphics cards have doubled.
We find ourselves in a rather bad economic situation in Europe. The rise in the price of the shopping cart, as well as fuel and electricity has risen to the beast. This significantly drops the purchasing power and faced with the purchase of a computer, a good that we could already consider as basic, it is a bobbin lace.
More expensive graphics cards and cheaper SSDs, how is this possible?
Today, two reports have been matched that give completely contradictory data. Mindfactory Data reports that the graphics card price in the past three years Doubled. trend strengthfor its part, reports a SSD price drop 34% year over year.
There is a key factor in all of this and that is that the computer salesboth desktop and portable, is in free fall. Declining sales data for most clone and laptop makers have been released. By purchasing less material, Demand for SSD hard drives is falling and also from rest of the components. Of course, it’s quite rare for the price of RAM and SSDs to go down, while the price of graphics cards goes up.
As Mindfactory Data reports, the average price of graphics cards has doubled. They took the average price of graphics cards in February 2020 and compared it to February 2023.
AMD had a average price of your graphics cards $295.25 and a total turnover of 442,870 dollars. The data shows that now the average of AMD Radeon graphics card It is $600.03 and generated 1.02 million dollars in turnover. They doubled the median sale price and nearly tripled revenue from chart sales.
Nvidia in February 2020 I had a average price of 426.59 dollars and total sales of 855,305 dollars. NOW the average price is in the $825.20with a total income of 1.84 million dollars, more than double what came in 2020.
We are talking about brutal data, while sales of new computers are falling. At the same time, the RAM and SSD prices have dropped by 30-40%. Note that the TrendForce report mainly talks about memory for smartphones and SSDs for servers, but also highlights what has happened in the computer market.
Not only graphics cards go up
Despite the sales, only the SSD and RAM are falling in price, the others have increased. Intel and AMD have increased the price of their processors by 10-15%. Motherboards from both processor manufacturers increased by 10-20%. Of course, the data does not add up.
What these manufacturers are doing is creating an artificial shortage, raising prices and generating more revenue. It has been established that if sales do not increase from last year’s quarter, the company is doing poorly and going public. This depreciation is negative for the future because it reduces their investment capacity. So they manipulate the data by making the hardware more expensive.
We will say, then Samsung, Micron or WD, among others, are they stupid? No, the problem is that these manufacturers have a surplus of memory chips already manufactured. Let’s say they manufacture in anticipation, while Intel and AMD are more “up to date”. It is understood to go to the day they produce with shorter lead times.
