Delays with passage to DDR3 memory complicate the position of memory producers. At the same time, the migration period of PC collectors from the advantageous use of DDR2 memory to DDR3 memory, according to optimistic forecasts was expected in the past year, and it was constantly transferred. The South Korean company samsung electronics, which are the most important suppliers of memory assumes that DDR3 will become the basic memory type before the end of year.
In turn, the analysts of New York company needham & Co in the recent report about delay with the passage on DDR3. The reason named is the lowered level of expenditures for equipment from the side of corporate users and slow passage to platforms, which support DDR3.
According to analysts, the demand for DDR3 memory for servers will be weak in the near one or two quarters, but mass passage on DDR3 will take place not earlier than 2010.
DRAM Producers cannot stimulate demand by reduction in the prices.
Thus, Elpida, Hynix, Micron, Samsung other producers, risk to complete this year with large losses. Now the only application field of DDR3 is limited to high performance gaming PC, where the high-speed memory supplements the general productivity of system, ensured by powerful graphic subsystem and processor.