[World DRAM Price] DRAM Prices Rise for Volume Users in Asia
September 13, 2000 (TOKYO) -- DRAM chip prices for volume users are rising in Europe and Asia.
According to a survey of worldwide DRAM prices conducted by ICIS-LOR, the 30-day (July 27 to Aug. 25) rolling average prices of 128Mb DRAMs (PC133, 16M x 8) for large-volume users remained unchanged in North America at US$15.82, while they rose 0.74 percent to US$16.16 in Europe and increased 4.17 percent to US$15.49 in Asia, compared to the previous week.
Korean DRAM chip manufacturers are moving to post-DRAM chips, therefore, the rising trend hasn't urged them to go back to DRAMs, and not stopped them from producing flash memory or SRAMs either.
On the other hand, the spot prices are continuing to go down. PC manufacturers seem to adjust their purchases of memory devices depending on prices. The recent declining trend in the spot prices, however, does not seem as bad as the oversupply as was seen in the end of February to the beginning of March, which recorded the most significant drop at more than 8 percent.
As for memory modules, the spot prices for 128MB DIMMs (PC133) declined by 1.43 percent from the previous week to US$129.84 in North America, while they fell 1.36 percent to US$130.00 in Europe and declined 1.84 percent to US$130.11 in Asia.
Table: 30-Day Rolling Averages of 128Mb DRAMs (PC133, 16M x 8) July 27-Aug. 25, 2000 (survey by ICIS-LOR)Area
Contract price
Week-on-week comparison
North America
US$15.82
0.00%
Europe
US$16.16
+0.74%
Asia
US$15.49
+4.17%
*Week-on-week comparison is the comparison with the 30-day rolling averages of July 20-Aug. 18, 2000.
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