According to this story out of DigiTimes we may finally be hitting peak DRAM demand and that supplies and prices may start to decline. This seems somewhat counter intuitive, the drop in sales of smartphones and cryptomining will reduce the demand somewhat but we should expect to see a surge in demand from auto manufacturers as our cars become more and more complex … and possibly intelligent. The counterpoint would be the maturation of current process tech and the numerous plants coming online over the next year or so. Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix, Innotron and even Jin Hua will be facing a lot of changes over the coming months. Let us hope part of the changes are a downwards trend in price.
"Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix would be forced to overhaul their current profit-oriented business strategy as both firms believe that the booming memory market, which has continued for 2-3 years, is likely to be over by the end of 2018, according to a Korea-based Digital Times report."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Windows 10 will try not to reboot when you’re just grabbing a cup of coffee @ Ars Technica
- Boffins just made it tougher to trick iris scanners with, er, dead eyeballs @ The Inquirer
- HOPE XII: A FOSS Operating System for e-Readers @ Hackaday
- Huawei phones banned from downloading VLC due to 'unfair' reviews @ The Inquirer
- Some Things just aren't meant to be (on Internet of Things networks). But we can work around that @ The Register
- IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' @ Slashdot
- Intel Xeon workhorses boot evil maids out of the hotel: USB-based spying thwarted by fix @ The Register
- Guru3D Rig of the Month – July 2018
The costs are almost 3x of
The costs are almost 3x of what it was when I put together the Haswell build im running now. Current prices are THE reason why I haven’t pulled the trigger on a new rig. I saw a 64gb kit yesterday on sale for $799.99. For ram. What a bargain.
Given the incremental progress in overall compute in the last 5 years however (that’s you Intel. we all see what you’ve been doing. youre not getting my money this time around), I aint too mad. Saved me from plunking down the cash for a new build that would have netted me only a minimal performance increase. Also, thanks to AMD becoming relevant again and the resulting “core wars”, I stand to get significantly more computing power when I do eventually upgrade.
Im not holding my breath for Intels 10nm. I feel like Ive seen this whole story play out before. Every action Intel has done in the last few months: the delays in the 10nm process, the painfully transparent 5ghz demo, and the drastic realignment/creation of various skus; they all say the same thing: “We’re scared sh!tless of AMD”. They should be. Here’s looking at you Zen 2.