The prices for SDRAM and NAND flash chips are expected to fall in the fourth quarter 2020. Due to an oversupply on the part of the manufacturers, including Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, the market researcher TrendForce expects a decline of about 10 percent for SDRAM and Flash . The downward trend should continue in the first quarter 2021.

According to TrendForce, full stocks are responsible and persistently low demand from server operators. In the past few months, Huawei is said to have been hoarding memory chips due to the trade war between China and the United States, giving the market some stability. Other Chinese smartphone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo would follow Huawei’s example – otherwise the oversupply would grow even stronger by the end of the year, according to market researchers.

Prices in Germany In German retail, SSD prices have continued to fall in many cases in recent months. Samsung’s SSD 970 Evo with 1 TB capacity, for example, currently costs 120 Euro – 25 percent less than in July. Even faster M.2 cards with PCI Express 4.0 connection and 1 TByte are now available from just under 170 euros.

A similar picture emerged until recently for RAM, but the prices of numerous kits have been rising again for a short time at least since mid-September 2020. 32 GByte DDR4 – 3200 – RAM didn’t even cost 95 Euro and are currently at good 100 Euro – an always no