The Register meldt dat de DRAM prijzen deze week licht gestegen zijn, volgens distributeurs omdat geheugenfabrikanten kunstmatig een voor hun voordelige vraag/aanbod situatie proberen te kweken:
Memory broker DMC Europe was today pricing chips at $6, making a 64MB PC 100 module $50, and a 128MB DIMM $100. This compares to $5.70 yesterday, putting a 64MB DIMM at $48. Prices are also up on Friday, when they were $5.40 and $46 respectively.Dane-Elec was also quoting $6 today. Alan Stanley, general manager, said the rise was due to a concerted effort from manufacturers such as Hyundai and Micron to hoist prices. DMC agreed that vendors were deliberately pushing up prices.
"We understand Hyundai and some of the other Far Eastern manufacturers are starving the market to drive the price up," said Andrew MacKenzie, vice president of DMC Europe.
De Memory Module Index van Global Sources laat een kleine stijging zien, maar echt overtuigend is het nog niet:
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