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Market Update: DRAM contract prices are set to jump another 13–30% in Q3

By BSR Admin / July 15, 2026 /

The third-quarter memory numbers are starting to land, and they say the squeeze is nowhere near done. Contract negotiations point to another 20–30% increase for DRAM and 35–40% for NAND in Q3 2026. The more conservative survey puts it at 13–18% for conventional DRAM and 10–15% for NAND, quarter over quarter. The two forecasts disagree…

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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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DRAM Supply Crunch Continues – Prices Won’t Return to Normal in 2026

By BSR Admin / December 1, 2025 /

The DRAM supply crunch shows no signs of easing, driven by the surging demand from AI workloads and high-performance computing. What was once a cyclical market prone to oversupply has transformed into a seller’s market, with memory and storage components in increasingly short supply. Major cloud service providers (CSPs) are making unprecedented moves to secure…

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