In cursory: Practise you have an old PC that you never got round to throwing abroad or selling? If it contains DDR3 memory, you might want to hang onto it until the end of the year—those modules are predicted to dramatically increment in value throughout 2022.

According to a DigiTimes report (via Tom's Hardware), DDR3 prices are expected to rise by twoscore to l percent beyond 2022. What'south behind the surge? Information technology's the same reason why we can't buy an RTX 3000 series, Zen iii CPU, PS5, etc.: demand is far outweighing supply.

Few dwelling PCs however rock DDR3, with the overwhelming bulk of people now using its successor, DDR4. Moreover, DDR5 is on its fashion; TeamGroup in December said it had become the kickoff DRAM company to enter the validation procedure of a consumer DDR5 memory module.

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Simply DDR3 is still found in a lot of legacy enterprise systems and IoT devices. In the first quarter of this year, increased need combined with reduced production will see its price leap 20 percentage, reaching up to l pct as the year goes on, co-ordinate to industry sources.

Tom's notes that many memory manufacturers, including Samsung and SK Hynix, are either slowing down product of DDR3 or phasing it out altogether in training for the kickoff of DDR5 manufacturing. But not everyone is going down this route; smaller industry names such as Nanya Technology and PSMC are keeping their output steady, though it won't be plenty to meet demand.

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