Intel released the 12th generation of Core at the end of last year, not only the first PCIe 5.0, but also the first DDR5 memory, announcing the arrival of memory upgrades, but in the past few months, DDR5 memory is out of stock, resulting in players want to buy is not easy to buy, which will also affect the popularity of the 12th generation core.
For the previous memory shortage, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra previously pointed out two keys to the shortage of DDR5 memory at the earnings conference.
One is the PMIC power management chip, its price is 10 times more expensive than the DDR4 used, and the supply is very tight, the long 35-week procurement cycle, so that the industrial chain and shelves are constantly raising prices, the price of DDR5 memory is naturally rising.
In addition to the PMIC chip, the DDR5 memory is stuck in the neck of the VRM power supply module, in the DDR5 standard it is also transferred from the motherboard to the memory module like the PMIC chip, although it is also a chip that looks small, but it also leads to the short-term DDR5 memory supply can not keep up.
However, the problem of DDR5 out-of-stock improvement is much faster than imagined, these days the domestic e-commerce on the DDR5 memory is suddenly not out of stock, Kingston, Weigang, Zhiqi, Samsung, Asgart, Pirate Ship and other brands of DDR5 memory can be bought at will, spot sales.
Unfortunately, the price is still not cheap, although it has declined compared to the crazy price increase in the previous two months, the current 16GB DDR4-4800 memory is the cheapest one to start at 999 yuan, and the well-known brand is almost 1500 yuan or even 2000 yuan, which is one or two times higher than the DDR4 memory.
For the 12th generation Core installation, the choice of DDR5 memory, 16GBx2 set of 2000-3000 cost, even as long as the 8GBx2 set, but also more than 1200 yuan, 8GB single price is also more than 599, and the smaller the capacity, the easier it is to out of stock, the manufacturer mainly promotes 16GB single strip and above capacity.
