DDR5 memory modules continue to decline in 2022, & 2023 to mark a wider adoption of the new memory standard
DDR5 would have seen more adoption in the PC marketplace had it not been for high premiums for the memory. Added with other computer components, consumers were led to needing to find more affordable solutions for their PC rigs. This difficulty felt in the PC marketplace caused board manufacturers to design separate motherboards with identical configurations to be able to offer support for DDR4 and DDR5 memory. This next year will be great for consumers wanting to adopt DDR5 into more PCs, as the current level of pricing does not appear to fluctuate higher during 2023. Plus, DDR4 kits are slightly less than their DDR5 counterparts, meaning consumers will have to spend less to future-proof their systems for the next few years. A lot of the declining cost is rumored to DRAM manufacturers having large quantities of overstock and sellers trying to maintain but not overstock their inventories. NAND manufacturers are also seeing a decline in sales by nearly twenty percent over the last quarter on TLC NAND compared to SLC NAND, which kept nominal in price throughout the year. The most considerable concern for consumers, as well as the manufacturers, boils down to costs on the manufacturing side. Suppose companies cannot sustain the current memory level for sale to consumers. In that case, they will have to slow down manufacturing, which can lead to a complete stop, interrupting the memory flow on the available global marketplace. News Sources: DigiTimes, Tom’s Hardware
