DDR5 is being hyped up to sky-high prices? It will take half a year to get the goods

There are many reasons for the shortage and price increase of DDR5 memory. In addition to the typical lack of capacity of new product upgrades, it may also be related to PMIC power management chips.

The DDR5 generation integrates the PMIC chip of the motherboard into the memory module, the price is more than 10 times higher than the price of the DDR4 memory PMIC chip, the delivery cycle is more than 35 weeks, and the new product takes more than half a year to be delivered.

According to the current trend, the price and availability of DDR5 this month are still not optimistic. Kingston executives have previously said that the january supply may ease, but it still does not completely solve the problem of DDR5 memory shortage. Problems with goods and rising prices. Micron, the third largest memory chip company, said at the earnings conference a few days ago that if meaningful improvements are to be made to DDR5, the current demand in the second half of 2022 will still far exceed the supply, and the relationship between supply and demand will not be possible until the second half of next year.

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