[Insights] Memory Spot Price Update: DRAM Buyers Rush In as DDR5 Spot Prices Jump 30% Amid Tight Supply

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Creative-Expert8086@reddit

Bro this isn’t supply and demand — it’s alchemy and greed. DDR3 in 2025 going up 60% in a month? What’s next, SDRAM bubble? 😂 These brokers out here acting like old RAM sticks are gold mines, when half of them still have dust from 2012. Classic market puppetry — create panic, scream 'shortage', flip your stash at triple price, and vanish. Let them cook themselves; I’ll wait till the smoke clears and they’re stuck hoarding 2GB sticks nobody wants. 🫡

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capybooya@reddit

This is ChatGPT slop.

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Creative-Expert8086@reddit

B4 chatgpt version:

Alot of fear mongering, and a lot of intentional market manpulation, i couldn't beleiving the clearing price for DDR3 can increase in 2025 by 50-60% in China's 2nd hand market in wityhin 1 month, wtf is this demand supply relation for DDR3 in 2025 in clearly broke any organic supply demand laws, consdiering that even DDR4 is almost vintage? this is clearly not market behaviour, but intnetional manupulation by brokers, fuck them, let them lose out, i will wait until this clear manipulation is over and the market is stalbisze, strong suggest for everyone as well! Unless these folks aremtrying to extract precisou metal off old rams ticks, someone educate me the market invisble hand please? Sound absurdity and satrical to fuck thes brokers as a reply for a commetnt

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Vb_33@reddit

Based

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Elegant-Apple-7555@reddit

Less than 20 days, the klevv DDR5 32G ram went from 108 to now 181... Crazy

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imaginary_num6er@reddit (OP)

According to TrendForce’s latest memory spot price trend report, regarding DRAM, buyers are snapping up quotes immediately, sending spot prices soaring. DDR5 chips have surged 30% this week, as overall supply remains tight and major module houses like Kingston continue to limit shipments.

Last week:

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/10/27/news-memory-makers-reportedly-halt-quotes-on-select-dram-nand-products-as-china-faces-daily-pricing/

With South Korean DRAM giants reportedly hiking prices by up to 30% recently, China’s memory market is feeling intense pressure. According to Commercial Times, citing Calian Press, some manufacturers have even halted quotations for certain DRAM and NAND flash products, and when prices are quoted, they’re valid for such brief periods that they essentially change on a daily basis.

Week prior:

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/10/23/news-samsung-sk-hynix-reportedly-lift-memory-prices-up-to-30-long-term-supply-deals-in-play/

Samsung and SK hynix have raised DRAM and NAND flash prices by up to 30% for Q4, passing the new rates on to customers.

End of September

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/09/30/news-record-low-memory-stock-could-signal-supercycle-ahead-likely-peaking-by-2027/

The Chosun Daily, referencing Morgan Stanley, predicts the peak of this cycle will arrive in 2027, with the surge expected to last more than a year.

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Virtual-Patience-807@reddit

Will be very funny when the peak arrives a lot sooner.

Fuck these companies.

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edflyerssn007@reddit

I bought a 128gb kit for $300 about two months ago, it's now $630....

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imaginary_num6er@reddit (OP)

RAM prices have been going up 10% per week consistently so it fits in

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edflyerssn007@reddit

Wish I had realized, would have bought another kit or two either to resell or just to have so many gigabytes.

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New-Yogurtcloset3349@reddit

This is insanity managed to get a 64gb DDR5 6000 CL30 kit for $289 Australian now the same kit goes for nearly $600 and isn't even being sold anymore.

Also noticed the same 2tb NVME drive I bought has shot up by another $100 just this week alone.

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kuroyume_cl@reddit

I ended up picking up a 32gb kit of DDR5 to replace my 16GB, as retailers here haven't caught up yet. Would've preferred to wait to early next year, but market is gonna be fucked for a while.

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hackenclaw@reddit

even nand price goes up.

I just watched my SSD I wanted to buy gone up by 10% within a week. wtf.

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ActuallyTiberSeptim@reddit

I was looking at PCPartPicker and you can get a decent motherboard for less than a 2x16GB kit.

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ThatOnePerson@reddit

There was a crazy combo on /r/buildapcsales yesterday with a high-end Intel motherboard and 2x16GB for 250$, and I was really tempted