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DRAM Market Update: three reasons memory supply isn’t catching up with demand

By BSR Admin / June 26, 2026 /

Micron just turned in the memory market’s headline quarter. In its fiscal third quarter, reported after the close on June 24, revenue reached a record ~$41.5 billion on a record gross margin near 85%, with DRAM alone accounting for about $31.3 billion, roughly three-quarters of the total. Both figures are company records, and both sit…

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Pricing Surplus Hardware Accurately When Memory Prices Swing 90% in a Quarter

By BSR Admin / June 19, 2026 /

The hardest part of selling decommissioned servers, memory, or storage in 2026 isn’t finding a buyer. It’s knowing what the gear is actually worth this week — because the number has been moving fast enough that any price more than a few weeks old is probably wrong. That accuracy is the part we’ve built our…

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DRAM and NAND prices are still rising in mid-2026, but buyers are starting to balk

By BSR Admin / June 10, 2026 /

In early June, a single analyst note briefly knocked the memory trade off balance. Barron’s reported that Karl Ackerman expects DRAM and NAND average selling prices (ASPs) to peak in mid-2026 and begin falling quarter over quarter as early as 2027 — roughly a year ahead of his own earlier forecast. Micron’s stock fell on…

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What Actually Drives Server Memory Resale Value: DDR4 vs DDR5

By BSR Admin / May 31, 2026 /

For most of the last two decades, the secondary server memory market followed a predictable curve. A new generation launches, the prior generation slides down a gentle depreciation slope, and a few years later the last sticks clear at scrap pricing. DDR3 followed that script. So did DDR2. DDR4 did not. Between September and November…

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Why DDR5 Retail Prices Are Dropping Despite the AI Infrastructure Boom

By BSR Admin / March 31, 2026 /

The memory market has entered a period of unprecedented divergence as of late March 2026. For nearly a year, IT departments and hardware enthusiasts have been battered by the “Rampocalypse,” a sustained period of skyrocketing DRAM costs that saw some modules triple in price. However, the tide is finally turning—at least in the retail sector.…

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Samsung’s 100% DRAM Price Hike and Why Even Apple Had to Pay Up

By BSR Admin / March 4, 2026 /

The memory market has just entered a state of emergency. As we move into early March 2026, the tech industry is grappling with a supply-chain shock that is being dubbed “Rampocalypse 2.0.” What was once a predicted “cyclical recovery” has mutated into a full-blown crisis, led by a historic pricing maneuver from Samsung Electronics. The…

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