Cost of RAM to Rise?

According to a piece on Yahoo News (via IGN News Service), RAM prices are expected to rise soon, thanks to increased demand, especially for newer DDR2 (Double Data Rate 2) RAM. Chip maker Micron projects demand in 2006 to be up 50-60% over last year. The increase is expected to be driven by greater memory demands from apps, increased laptop sales, the MacTel boxes (which use DDR2), and the forthcoming AMD Socket AM2 motherboards, which will support DDR2. On top of this, continued demand for older, first-gen DDR will force chip makers to have to reserve fab time for this memory type as well, slowing production of the newer modules. All major memory makers have been making noise about pending price hikes.

So, if you’ve been thinking about maxing out the mems on that cyberdeck, you better get while the gettin’s not ridiculously overpriced.