TrendForce: DDR4 spot prices drop 1.18% this week, DRAM memory market shows a mild decline

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IT Home, April 8 — Market research firm TrendForce released a blog today (April 8), stating that the spot market for DRAM is experiencing controlled selling pressure, with prices continuing to decline gradually, and mainstream DDR4 chips decreasing by 1.18% week-over-week.

IT Home note: Contained Selling Pressure means that although there is selling activity in the market, prices have not experienced a catastrophic collapse. Some spot traders have recently begun clearing part of their inventories to seize arbitrage opportunities and recoup cash, but overall selling pressure remains within manageable limits.

The average price of mainstream DDR4 1Gx8 3200MT/s chips has slightly decreased from $33.96 last week to $33.56 this week, a weekly decline of 1.18%.

The NAND Flash spot market showed sluggish trading performance this week. Faced with high prices, most buyers chose to wait and see, leading to low market trading sentiment. Sellers generally expect contract prices to rise further in Q2 2026, attempting to boost spot prices through this expectation.

However, some sellers, affected by capital allocation pressures, have had to compromise by lowering prices to complete transactions. Under the game of buying and selling, the spot price of 512Gb TLC wafers fell by 2.15% this week, closing at $21.68.

TrendForce believes that the current market is in a deep game of negotiation between buyers and sellers. On the DRAM side, mild downward pressure exists due to inventory clearing needs, while on the NAND side, there is a contradiction between expectations of contract price increases and insufficient spot liquidity. Capital pressures force some holders to lower prices to liquidate, resulting in a substantial decline in spot prices.