The pendulum is swinging the other way, so prices are going up.
About a year ago DDR3 manufacturers thought there was going to be a huge boom in consumption. The Ipads, smart phones, and computers were being consumed at a great rate, and therefore memory was getting consumed. Microsoft and Intel both pushed for the production of vast amounts of RAM in order to support the Surface and Ultrabook product lines.
Then the bottom fell out of the market.
These companies compensated by slashing memory production, and sitting on their stock piles until they were sold out. It was announced a year ago that this was happening, and this website even had a news story on it.
Flash forward to today. Production is still nearly non-existant. The stock piles are all that is left, so the prices are going up. In a few months the cost per unit will be ideal, and the manufacturers will begin full-scale production again. The introduction of the new generation of consoles will offset the crappy launch of Windows 8, so production will spike and flood the market again. Flooded market drives price down, lower price will lead to the cycle repeating.
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