RAM prices rocket as Hynix FABs on fire after chemical explosion

[evilsatan]

September 4th, 2013 at 1:04 pm - Authorfaith

World DRAM prices are set to rocket as news comes in that Hynix FABs 1 and 2 have been engulfed in a ball of flame following a huge chemical explosion.

UPDATE: We have just heard that several major memory suppliers have stopped shipments – read more here.

Reports are still coming in, but the effects are immediate – with memory prices already shooting up by 10% in the first hour after reports started.

This is one of the main factories for nVidia GDDR5 we are told, so expect a major issue for the green team with production and pricing. That said, As nVidia begin to switch to other sources, so AMD’s price for Radeon RAM will also jump up.

Hynix makes 30% of the world’s memory in this area, and now it will lose half its production, so world production will drop by 15%.

All figures are approximate – we are getting news in from our Far East sources as we type.

At the source – FABs 1 and 2 burn


Further away smoke billows at Hynix


Even from afar – it’s a terrible sight

KitGuru says: We’re thankful that no one was killed, but pricing will be crazy now that 15% of the world’s production has been switched off indefinitely.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/

[Goldberg]

Bloody hell! Looks bad.

Apple use Hynix, prob a ply by Samsung so they use that instead. Glad I bought 16gb for my Mini a few months ago as I remember last time with the HD's they (prices) went daft..

[evilsatan]

I have just tried to stock up through amazon as all my other suppliers have increased prices already. Hope it's not like the HDD prices as they strll haven't got back to where they were and they all have less warranty now!

[stevo25]

Just bought mine on Ebay. Ta for the heads up

[QfanatiQ]

Jesus, thats epic on so many scales!

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[Rick Sanchez]

Balls I was just about to order another 16GB of RAM for my PC :/

[consoles]

like 16gb isnt enough lol

[reverend]

I just bought some a couple of weeks ago for a new build at home and bought 32GB of Crucial Ballistix. It was £79 for 16GB then and is already £99 now so it's going upwards!

To be fair the i7 4770 has gone up £20 as well so it looks like for once I got a bargain!