[World DRAM Price] Declining Price Trend Continues Despite Year-End Sales Battle
December 6, 2000 (TOKYO) -- A partial recovery was observed in spot market prices of DRAM chips in the previous week, however, the prices are still showing an overall declining trend.
This comes after more than two months of falling DRAM prices worldwide. Notably, this is an exceptional situation for DRAM prices to fall before the year-end sales season, and the situation is making it difficult for analysts to predict market prospects for 2001.
According to a survey of world DRAM prices conducted by ICIS-LOR, which has bases in London, Houston and Singapore, the rolling average prices of 128Mb DRAMs (PC133, 16M x 8) for large users in the 30-day period ending Nov. 17, 2000 (from Oct. 19 to Nov. 17, 2000) reached US$13.82 in North America, US$10.67 in Europe, and US$14.54 in Asia. Compared with the previous week (30-day rolling average for the period ending Nov. 10, 2000) these prices remained the same in North America, and represented a decline of 7.13 percent for Europe, and a decline of 5.58 percent for Asia.
As for prices of memory modules, the spot prices for 128MB DIMMs (PC133) declined 7.86 percent from the previous week to US$67.39 in North America, and they feel 7.18 percent to US$65.39 in Europe and fell 8.24 percent to US$59.20 in Asia.
Table: 30-Day Rolling Averages of 128Mb DRAMs (PC133, 16M x 8) Oct. 19-Nov. 17, 2000 (survey by ICIS-LOR)Area
Contract price
Week-on-week comparison
North America
US$13.82
0.00%
Europe
US$10.67
-7.13%
Asia
US$14.54
-5.58%
*Week-on-week comparison is the comparison with the 30-day rolling averages of Oct. 12-Nov. 10, 2000.
Previous report:DRAM Prices Still Declining; Recovery Seen After March 2001
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