At the end of last month, we reported on the spot price of DDR4 DRAM chipsmeaningSoaring outside, at the same time, leading memory chip manufacturers in Taiwan and South Korea have announced plans to phase out the standard, leaving remaining inventory to cope with remaining demand.
It turns out that the DDR4 standard has been on the market for nearly ten years, starting with the sixth-generation Intel Core "Skylake" processors in 2013 and continuing through the fourteenth-generation Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" and AMD Ryzen Socket AM4 processors, which means there is a huge inventory of devices equipped with DDR4 memory on the market, and there are also users looking to upgrade.
Electronic Times reported that South Korean memory chip makers such as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics have suspended their DDR4 chip phaseout plans and may continue to supply until spot prices lag significantly behind DDR5. At the same time, the two companies will remain cautious on the supply side to ensure there is no excess inventory.