Price of RAM Is Now Increasing

After reaching an historical low point at the beginning of December, price for DDR2 RAM chips started again to increase, as much as 20 % within the last 2 weeks. This increase is not linked to larger request from integrators or OEM, but simply to the lack of chips as manufacturers simply stopped their production lines to reduce their stocks and avoid producing products they will not be able to sell. According to analysts, such increase will most likely be only a temporary state. Indeed, manufacturers can not stop production lines forever, and they might have to wait couple of quarters before seeing demands rising up again.