Toshiba prices RAM memories by 20% after the blackout a few weeks ago

Rise in the price of RAM memory by Toshiba by 20% due to the blackout suffered by its plants located in Japan.

The price of RAM memory is going to rise and not exactly a little. At the end of June it was announced that WD and Toshiba 'suffered' a power outage. Said outage in an industrial zone in Japan lasted 13 minutes and caused the loss of 9 million Terabytes of memory. A cut that couldn't have come at a better time and that serves as the perfect excuse.

Both companies said it would take a month or so for them to resume production. The funny thing is that these companies do not have emergency power systems to prevent this problem. One problem that we will end up paying on a good basis is that a 20% increase in the price of DRAM memory is expected.

Toshiba will raise the price of RAM due to the blackout

The funny thing is that it is not an isolated case. Trade and border tensions between South Korea and Japan due to an 80-year-old war conflict could also make RAM memory more expensive. Come on, coincidentally, when the RAM and the SSD have reached historical lows 'appear' problems that 'force' to raise prices.

Of course, this 'problems' we will end up paying for all. After two years of skyrocketing RAM prices, they are now reasonably priced. The problem is that these companies have seen a profit margin of 60-70% have gone to 25-40% profit and it seems that they do not like it very much. When it went up so much, they blamed smartphones and since they sell less, they have dropped in price. But now they will raise it artificially.

DRAMeXchange indicates in a report that the price for an 4Gigabits DDR8 DRAM chip closed at $ 3.74 on Friday, July 19. It represents an increase of almost 15% compared to the previous week and 23% compared to July 5.

Circumstances that arrive at the time when the Ryzen 3000 have been launched. It is an ideal moment, since many users will bet on these new processors and it is time to make money. It is curious how the European Union passes this bullshit and only China has sanctioned the manufacturers of DRAM memories.

Source: TPU