{"id":25,"date":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/articles\/ddr5-memory-pricing-trends-procurement-advice-for-h2-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","slug":"ddr5-memory-pricing-trends-procurement-advice-for-h2-2026","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/articles\/ddr5-memory-pricing-trends-procurement-advice-for-h2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"DDR5 Memory Pricing Trends &#038; Procurement Advice for H2 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DRAM industry enters H2 2026 at a turning point. Driven by enterprise refresh cycles and AI training compute demand, DDR5 RDIMM prices have stabilized after 18 months of decline \u2014 and may begin a mild upward trend by year-end. This article breaks down the drivers, the supply landscape across Micron, Samsung, Hynix, and offers a practical procurement playbook for IT decision-makers.<\/p>\n<h2>Supply Landscape<\/h2>\n<p>The big three DRAM suppliers have shifted significant capacity from DDR4 to DDR5 production lines. Micron&#8217;s Hiroshima and Samsung&#8217;s Pyeongtaek Hwaseong fabs are now running at over 70% DDR5 mix. Total DDR5 capacity is up ~38% YoY, but demand has grown even faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by AI compute demand and enterprise refresh cycles, DDR5 RDIMM prices are stabilizing. A deep dive into supply, demand and capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"fwg_views":5107,"fwg_read_minutes":3,"footnotes":""},"article_cat":[11],"class_list":["post-25","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_cat-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireworldtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_cat?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}