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Well it was a decent run, right? After about a year of consumers benefiting from overstocked DRAM and NAND based components dipping prices for things like RAM and SSDs, it looks like manufacturers have caught on and like, stopped making things. The first half of the year saw prices drop by like 30% on average, which retailers apparently were sort of … against.
In response to this, Taiwan’s United Daily reports that manufacturers started cutting production in Q3. Samsung was highlighted as cutting production in half starting in September. All of this is estimated to cause prices to start to rise by as much at 10-15%, just before the end of the year.
The component glut has been compounded by overall lesser demand for new computers, a trend that has actually been several years in the making. As everyone knows the future is plastics- er, I mean, tablets. And since tablets are really just DRAM and SSD in a trenchcoat pretending to be a computer, don’t expect them to be cheaper than last years models.