Next-gen Samsung DDR5 memory will be 30% expensive than DDR4

Samsung’s DDR5 memory is on its way to normalization, replacing DDR4 in this process. The latest rate brings faster data transfer speeds than the previous generation, but this is reportedly going to be costly. Market observers now estimate that the supply price of DDR5 memory will be about 30% higher than that of DDR4, although the consumer market may not realize this until 2023.

By 2022, DDR5 “will be supplied at a price that is more than 30% higher” than DDR4, according to market watcher TrendForce cited by The Elec. However, PC OEMs will not be quick to adopt DDR5 next year, but the new standard should be widely distributed across the consumer PC market by 2023.

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Demand for DDR5 will be high enough to cover 10% of the full DRAM market next year. And by 2024, market research firm Omdia estimates that DDR5 could account for 43% of the DRAM market.

Samsung is the largest producer of DRAM in the world, and you can be sure that the company is preparing for the DDR5 era, although it has not yet talked much about the consumer PC side yet.

However, Samsung has previously introduced a number of DDR5 solutions for business space. It includes the first integrated industry-level IC management for DDR5 memory in-line, with a new chip that will allow the company to store up to 768GB of RAM in a single server stack.

In the mobile market, Samsung has been producing 10nm 16GB LPDDR5 DRAM chips in its production line in Pyeongtaek since last year.