Unexpected Shift: DDR4 Memory Becomes More Expensive Than DDR5

The fact that the prices for GDR4 labor stores would soon grow significantly, due to ever reduced production capacities, has become apparent for some time. Now DDR4 memory are more expensive than comparable DDR5-RAM.

Manufacturer travels back capacity

Even if the demand for DDR4 -RAM is still relatively stable – especially from the end customer market – the large RAM manufacturers have already started to gradually reduce or completely give up capacities for this type of storage. With Micron, the last major RAM manufacturer had recently announced the end of the GDR4 production.

With SK Hynix and Samsung, the priorities shifted to the GDR5-RAM a long time ago because the more modern storage type becomes the standard in more and more areas. In conjunction with the prospect that the Chinese memory manufacturers will soon switch to GDR5 production, the prices for GDR4-RAM are now attracting vigorously.

AI influences storage market strongly

According to the Taiwanian industry service, this should currently Digitimes As a result, GDR4 memory kits with certain capacities have recently been more expensive than DDR5 variants with the same capacity. Previously, Chinese manufacturers had flooded the GDR4 market with cheap modules, which started to give up the GDR4 production due to a lack of margins. Because GDR5-RAM continues to prevail, the prices for GDR4 modules should actually be particularly low due to low demand.

However, the enormous demand for capacities for GDR5 and high-bandwidth (HBM) modules in the AI ​​area also plays a role in the fact that the large manufacturers have given up their GDR4 production earlier than usual. Market observers therefore assume that the prices for GDR4 labor stores could continue to increase, also because demand is higher than the available offer. According to the report, the costs are still likely to increase over the course of the year. Anyone who currently uses a mainboard with AMDS AM4-socket or older Intel chips should simply make the leap on a newer system with a DDR5 RAM.