DDR5 RAM, the new standard for consumer-grade PCs and laptops, has seen a decline in prices since its debut in 2021. However, market analysts now predict a reversal of this trend, projecting a 15%-20% increase in prices in the coming months. This surge is primarily attributed to the reallocation of manufacturing resources towards the production of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), specifically for the booming AI industry.
South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix has triumphantly navigated last year’s downturn to emerge with significant profitability in the first quarter of 2023. Riding the wave of the booming AI industry, the company reported a staggering 144.3% increase in revenue to 12.42 trillion won. SK Hynix’s dominance in supplying high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to Nvidia’s AI chip platform has been a major driving force behind this growth.
