3 news on March 7, According to TrendForce reports, DDR3 prices will increase by about 5% due to insufficient supply. The moment saw this news, Xiaolei was confused. Because the first generation of consumer-grade CPUs that support DDR5, the 12th generation Core and 600 motherboards, have been released. Why is the price of DDR3 now going up again?
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Reports say that the two major memory manufacturers Samsung and Hynix have confirmed that they will gradually reduce DDR3 memory production capacity. Among the major manufacturers, only Micron has not reduced the production of DDR3. Although Nanya, Winbond and other companies have decided to increase DDR3 production, the production capacity will not be increased until next year, and it may not be able to make up for the gap left by Samsung and Hynix.
Nowadays, DDR4 has become popular. Considering the reduced consumer demand for DDR3, Samsung and Hynix will reduce DDR3 production capacity. The question is, now that DDR5 is commercially available, who is still using DDR3 memory?
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First of all, it is definitely a workplace that does not require high computer performance. Employees working in such places usually only need to process PPT, forms, or use some professional software required by companies and institutions, and do not have high performance requirements. They pursue stability more and generally do not upgrade computer configurations unless necessary. No matter how friends in the graphics card bar and CPU bar promote the advantages of the 12th generation Core, to them, it is no different from Celeron and Pentium. Some companies can even find DDR2 memory now.
There is also a group of people who regard assembling computers as fun. Although they already have high-performance computers at home, they are still buying second-hand computer hardware everywhere. They challenge 100 yuan to play League of Legends and 300 yuan to play chicken. For these people, we usually call them "trash guys", and they are generally active in Tualatin Bar. Compared with Core , Xeon CPU is more cost-effective, so it is their favorite.
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Xeon CPUs are foreign garbage removed from servers, most of them are old, and some of them do not support DDR4 at all. These two groups are the main consumers of DDR3 memory, and they still persist today.
But it is 2022 after all, and the demand for DDR3 will definitely be getting lower and lower. After all, the server CPU is also being upgraded, and the foreign garbage that is slowly being phased out will all support DDR4. As for ordinary consumers, when installing a computer now, they must choose a new CPU and motherboard, which come with a warranty and are more reliable.
