DRAM prices are expected to climb sharply in the third quarter of 2025, with increases of up to 45% depending on the product, according to TrendForce. This price surge will reportedly be driven by capacity reallocations, product phase-outs, and demand from both AI servers and seasonal consumer trends. Notably, outgoing types of memory will experience the highest increases. However, the TrendForce analysis does not include 25% U.S. import tariffs on products from Japan and Korea.
Prices of DDR5, the most popular type of mainstream DRAM today, for both client and server applications are expected to rise moderately by 3% to 8%, while LPDDR5X used in mobile devices is projected to increase by 5% to 10% amid seasonal restocking and constrained supply, according to TrendForce. GDDR7 — which is still in early adoption stages, but whose production is ramping up rapidly — is forecast to see a smaller price uptick of 0% to 5% as suppliers begin reallocating capacity from GDDR6 to support next-generation GPUs.
