DDR5 is suddenly not out of stock, 16GB capacity sold for 999 yuan

Zhongguancun online news, since Intel released the 12th generation of Core desktop processors last year, followed by the popularity of DDR5, but due to the serious shortage of DDR5, resulting in a premium is too obvious, basically became the existence of buying a loss, scalpers will be the price hyped five or six times, eBay 32GB DDR5 speculated to 2500 US dollars, about 16,000 yuan.

Earlier, an executive in Kingston said that when any kind of memory is upgraded, the initial availability will not be good, and the same was true when DDR4 replaced DDR3 before, when DDR4 was still the first server platform, and DDR5 is now first launched on consumer-grade platforms, which is also affected by the global chip shortage.

The executive expects that only when DDR5 memory accounts for 30% of the entire memory market will the price be reduced, each generation of memory conversion process often takes 2-3 years, they believe that the price will gradually decline in the next few years, but the shortage problem will be alleviated next month, Kingston's DDR5 memory is more readily available, at present they only have one DDR5 memory on sale, next year will add more types.

However, at present, the situation of DDR5 memory shortage has improved, Kingston, Weigang, Zhiqi, Samsung, Asgart, Corsair and other brands of DDR5 memory are sold in stock, but the DDR5 memory premium situation is still continuing, the current 16GB DDR4-4800 memory The cheapest is also 999 yuan to start, well-known brands are almost 1500 yuan or even 2000 yuan, which is one or two times higher than DDR4 memory.

Everyone in front of the screen can continue to crouch and wait until the price is right.

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