Report: GDDR Price About to Rise
Written on May 5, 2008 – 10:25 am | by admin
DigiTimes today reported that prices of DRAM parts may rise, citing sources at Taiwan IC distributors.
Some DRAM makers have started allotting more capacity for commodity DRAM, especially SO-DIMMs for notebooks, the sources said. Capacity for GDDR has started to strain amid the strategic capacity allocation, they noted. As DRAM makers are expected to reserve capacity priority for commodity DRAM for 1-2 quarters, a price revision for GDDR is thus likely, they said. The sources indicated that a price hike is likely to be seen from the second half of May, as some system makers are expected to completely digest their inventory by then.
Let’s hope this won’t give occasion for ATI and NVIDIA for just another delay or price bump. Both companies are set to launch their next-generations graphics cards over the coming months. The latest ATI Radeon HD 4 series cards will use both GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory parts.
Source: DigiTimes
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