Qimonda Bankrupt Sends RAM Chips Prices Up

According to the last figures of the RAM exchange market DRAMeXchange, the price of some RAM chips rocketed up by 10 t o25 %. This is directly linked to bankruptcy of Qimonda that was manufacturing 9.5% of RAM chips sold worldwide.
However, it remains unclear if this price increase will be steady or just a speculation reaction as the market remains overloaded with unsold products, stocks are still full, and the current economic slow-down should not drive and rebound for RAM needs for quite some time. This should not necessarily translate into higher prices for our RAM modules, at least in short term.