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Experts: Memory Prices Going 'crazy'
News PC prices are being forced up by expensive memory and predictions of a severe shortage next year could force prices higher according to one analyst. According to Dataquest analyst Richard Gordon, the rise is being fuelled by DRAM brokers on the so...
[September 15, 1999, 17:00]
Memory Prices Fading Fast
News Memory prices have been on a downward trajectory for the past three months, a situation that seems to promise shrinking profits and excess inventory for the next few quarters and consolidation over the longer term, analysts say.
[December 20, 2000, 16:04]
Memory Prices Plunge Amid Market-share Scramble
News Flash memory prices have declined by 35 percent, year over year, yet shipments have gone up 54 percent. The average selling price of DRAM, the type of memory used in PCs, dropped 33 percent from December to April.
[June 15, 2007, 8:43]
PalmOne Boosts Handheld Memory And Cuts Prices
News The Tungsten T5 will include non-volatile memory to make sure the data is not lost. The new Tungsten T5, which was modelled on the popular, entry-level Tungsten E business device, uses a high-end Intel XScale processor and comes with 256MB of...
[October 4, 2004, 17:55]
EU Investigates Memory Allegations
News The European Union is investigating whether the world's largest memory makers conspired to raise chip prices in 2001, mirroring a probe being conducted by the US Department of Justice. The probe focuses on whether memory manufacturers such as...
[March 3, 2004, 7:30]
Double Delight For PC Memory Makers
News For makers of PC memory known as double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM, 2004 is shaping up as a two-pronged winner: prices for the current technology are surging, and a new, high-profit replacement is about to hit store shelves.
[April 14, 2004, 11:15]
Flash Memory Sales Driven By Nand
News Worldwide sales of flash memory cards are set to grow, driven by a drop in Nand memory prices and a rise in sales of consumer devices with the technology, according to Gartner. Prices for Nand (Not And) electronic logic gate components -- a newer...
[September 12, 2003, 11:50]
PC Market Ripe For A Rebound
News The precipitous decline in memory prices appears to have skidded to a halt, leading some analysts to believe that some of the worst effects of the slowdown in the PC market may be over. Memory prices have remained relatively stable for the past few...
[March 16, 2001, 10:24]
Samsung Gets Massive Fine For Price Fixing
News The international conspiracy to fix memory prices uncovered in 2002 was real after all. Samsung, the world's biggest memory maker, has agreed to pay $300m (£168m) and plead guilty for conspiring with others to fix prices on Dynamic Random Access...
[October 14, 2005, 9:20]
RAM Prices Finally Heading North
News Computer memory prices went down in August. But the rapid fall in memory prices over June through August made it suicidal to try to stockpile RAM, and everybody seems to have run them down to the lowest ever levels.
[September 27, 1996, 12:11]
RAM Prices Tipped To Head North
News The summer of RAM bargains is nearing its end as memory prices begin to bottom out, according to PC vendors. We've been changing prices constantly because of the memory market but I would imagine a plateau over the very short term and steeper...
[August 29, 1996, 12:28]
Samsung Drive May Halt DRAM Market Recovery
News Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number-two maker of memory chips, said on Monday that it raised contract prices for computer memory chips by about 15 percent in April and expected further increases in May.
[May 6, 2008, 9:54]
Infineon Fights On With Rambus Countersuit
News Rambus' loss of its patent case against Infineon is just the beginning of the legal battle over computer memory, with PC prices in the balance Although a judge dismissed Rambus' case against Infineon on Friday, the German memory manufacturer...
[May 8, 2001, 9:13]
Intel Plans Flash Memory Price Hike
News Intel plans to raise prices for processors that contain flash memory technology by as much as 40 percent on 1 January in response to increased demand. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker said Monday that demand for processors with flash...
[November 26, 2002, 8:26]
Memory Price Rises Set To Continue
News Industry consolidation, product diversity and changes in the customer base and other factors should result in fairly stable prices for the memory that goes into PCs and servers, according to memory executives and analysts.
[March 13, 2002, 9:27]
A Year Ago Today: RAM Prices Rise 20 Per Cent In Four Days
News Some OEMs who buy from memory brokers say that prices for 16Mb and 32Mb memory chips have risen as much as 20 per cent in last four days. Andrew Mackenzie, director of the memory division at UK distributor Datrontech , agrees that prices won't...
[October 1, 1997, 11:35]
Five Years Ago: RAM Prices Rise 20 Per Cent In Four Days
News Some OEMs who buy from memory brokers say that prices for 16Mb and 32Mb memory chips have risen as much as 20 per cent in last four days. Andrew Mackenzie, director of the memory division at UK distributor Datrontech , agrees that prices won't...
[September 29, 2001, 8:00]
Memory Makers Ride Out Downturn
News Prices have sunk to the point where memory manufacturers are selling their chips for well below cost and are unable to cut costs deeply enough to squeeze out a profit, despite repeated rounds of layoffs.
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
AMD And Fujitsu Combine Flash Operations
News AMD and Fujitsu will combine their flash memory operations in a new company to cut costs, lower prices and speed up production in a difficult market. The new company, announced on Monday, essentially streamlines the 10-year-old joint venture for...
[April 1, 2003, 7:54]
Samsung: DRAM Price Rise Unlikely Before End-May
News A Samsung Electronics executive said on Wednesday that it sees continued difficulty in the DRAM memory chip market this year, and is unlikely to raise DRAM prices before the end of May. Samsung is the world's top memory-chip maker.
[April 17, 2008, 9:33]
