{"id":224884,"date":"2017-08-17T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=224884"},"modified":"2017-08-17T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:38:48","slug":"big-price-increase-for-graphics-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/224884-big-price-increase-for-graphics-memory.html","title":{"rendered":"Big price increase for graphics memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of memory used in graphics cards has risen by 30%, according to sources speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20170816PD205.html?mod=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DigiTimes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The price of VRAM in August surged to $8.50 from its price of $6.50 last month.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the price increase is fueled by RAM manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix allocating VRAM production capacity to producing memory for servers and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Following the reallocation of manufacturing capacity, server RAM now accounts for 27% of Samsung&#8217;s overall RAM capacity &#8211; up from 12%.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung currently supplies 55% of the world&#8217;s VRAM, followed by SK Hynix at 35% and Micron at 10%.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/222295-amd-unveils-rx-vega-64-most-powerful-radeon-graphics-card-ever.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD unveils RX Vega 64 \u2013 most powerful Radeon graphics card ever<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of memory used in graphics cards has risen by 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":201900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30004,45384,645,19111,42788],"class_list":["post-224884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-graphics-cards","tag-mircon","tag-samsung","tag-sk-hynix","tag-vram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224894,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224884\/revisions\/224894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}