- Another walk in RAM prices could soon make laptops more expensive
- A report suggests
- Other brands like Micron have already revealed DRAM and Nand Flash walks
It is likely that portable computers (and other devices) will become more expensive due to price increases that, according to reports, will make memory much more expensive in the near future.
As Korean site new daily reportsApparently, Samsung has confirmed to the partners that prices are increasing (charged to device manufacturers) for flash dram and nand memory. This is happening in the fourth quarter of 2025, so starting next month.
It is DRAM, standard RAM modules for PC and laptops (and another hardware), which worries us here, and the report establishes that LPDDR memory will increase by 15% to 30%.
LPDDR is a low -power DDR memory that is used on laptops and telephones (as is more efficient in power, as the name implies), and they are LPDDR4X and 5x that are configured to be beaten with this timer price walking (and LPDDR4 also).
Nand Flash is used in storage, including cheap EMMC units that are often used on low -cost laptops, and price increases are expected to be a little less alarming from 5% to 10%.
ANALYSIS: A bleak image for RAM
This is not particularly surprising to listen, since we have already witnessed increases in memory prices this year, including reports on DDR4 RAM becomes more expensive.
This is because DDR4 production is decreasing (losing to DDR5 and HBM, where greater profits are obtained), an occurrence to which the new daily report refers when it speaks of “adjusted supply” due to the reduced production of older memory products.
Samsung is not alone here, either, with Micron has already announced price increases For DRAM and Nand Flash, supposedly for a sum of 20% to 30%, according to this report, and Sandisk also (10% in the last case). Then, given the Samsung talk of up to 30% of price increases in some scenarios, these are some considerable walks in theory.
The LPDDR4X and LPDDR5X memory is used in a large number of laptops, from past generation models to avant -garde notebooks (which execute LPDDR5X), so the cost of these RAM modules that will fairly rise will affect the material invoice (the general cost of making the device) for these laptops.
That is, of course, a price increase that will be transmitted to consumers when it comes to the price of any portable computer on the shelf, so this is a sinister track that prices will occur soon.
Agree, perhaps not in the immediate future, since the price of these memory modules only increases with the effect from now on (or next week), and that will take a little time to filter through the supply and production chain. But not so long, and the price driven by RAM increases for notebooks could be in force before Black Friday 2025, although no doubt discounts will still be in sales (as always).
While RAM is not the most expensive component on a PC (especially not in a Game portable computer When the GPU orders much of the premium), it certainly has an impact, especially for the avant -garde daily controllers that are loaded in memory. The report specifically mentions the AI PC (co -pilot+ laptop computers) such as boosting the demand for high performance low power (LPDDR5X), as well as smartphones – That will also see the affected prices.
