Buying memory is nowadays cheaper than ever before. Such a proposition would be commonplace when talking about any other kind of computer hardware but, as we all know, DRAM price fluctuations have given us more than one chill and nobody is sure how long the current situation will last.

Some fortune tellers like Ben Tseng, vice-president of ProMOS (a memory chip maker) consider that "is possible that DRAM prices go up again in the 2nd quarter of 2008". This prediction is based, once again, in the belief that Windows Vista will finally start to sell well, thanks to the big companies buying big.

Maybe is time for us, as costumers, to wish for prices to raise just a little. Last time memory was such a bargain (in '97 and '98) it all ended with a skyrocketing that placed memory modules at twice it previous value for the most part of '99. It's in no one's interest to have the sector sustain repeated loses (like  SMIC had to face recently).

Link: DigiTimes.

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