The RAM and SSDs do not shuffle in price until next year 2019, when the new plants of the manufacturers are ready, a year later than the initial forecasts.

The price of RAM and SSDs has been taking us headlong for weeks, we even made a complete analysis of price evolution of these units a few weeks ago. We have seen how from September 2016 to these days the price has practically risen by 50% on average. Things will not stop this year and it is estimated that prices will grow another 30% approximately. The first reports of the industry highlighted that next year this price could fall next year, but the most recent information speaks of a price decrease even later.

Jon Erensen, is the director of semiconductor research at Gartner, who has said that the price of RAM and SSDs, in addition to all units based on NAND Flash, will not see their prices fall until next 2019. This problem will be This is because RAM memory producers have problems meeting the demand for these chips, because both computers and smartphones use them, which has caused the price to skyrocket due to the supply-demand relationship.

There is no forecast of a solution to this problem until next 2019, therefore until then we are going to pay a lot of money for RAM and SSDs. It will be in 2019 when the most important manufacturers, such as Samsung and Hynix, mainly, have their factories updated or the new plants they are developing are operational. Hynix is ​​implementing a new NAND Flash memory factory in China, but it will not be until 2019 when it is fully operational.

The two main reasons that have triggered this situation is that the sales of mobile devices and derivatives have grown very significantly and the great demand for these and their incipient capacity causes these problems. It is not very difficult to find smartphones with 4GB of RAM and 64Gb of memory and therefore, the problems are found by computer users, who are the ones who are really suffering the most from this excessive price increase. We must add to this the lack of foresight of the manufacturers, who did not know how to anticipate the increase in demand and are now powerless in the face of these problems.