{"id":978,"date":"2014-02-10T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/?p=978"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:00:39","slug":"curious-prices-in-the-pc-ram-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2014\/02\/curious-prices-in-the-pc-ram-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Prices in the PC RAM Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2013\/01\/new-computers-upgrade-to-ssd\/\">A year ago I bought 8GB of DDR3 RAM for $45<\/a>.  I just bought another pair of DIMMs with identical specs and paid $77.  Prices spiked to this level during 2013 Q1 and have not retreated, in what seems a blatant market violation of Moore&#8217;s Law.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/166775-ram-pricewatch-memory-spikes-in-wake-of-hynix-fire-but-for-how-long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some commentary on this situation<\/a> notes that historically DRAM producers have whipsawed between cutthroat competition and nearly (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DRAM_price_fixing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if not explicitly<\/a>) collusive pricing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I bought 8GB of DDR3 RAM for $45. I just bought another pair of DIMMs with identical specs and paid $77. Prices spiked to this level during 2013 Q1 and have not retreated, in what seems a blatant market violation of Moore&#8217;s Law. Some commentary on this situation notes that historically DRAM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-fM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}