The price of RAM will double this quarter

The RAM memory market for mobile devices shows no signs of letting up and the RAM memory crisis caused by the AI ​​craze is on its way to a price increase close to 100% quarterly during the second quarter of 2026. This increase is added to the 60% growth that LPDDR5X memory already suffered in the first quarter of the year and, without a doubt, will make The price of smartphones, tablets and laptops that use this type of memory increases even more.

According to TrendForce forecasts, smartphone memory prices are expected to register a specific increase of between 93% and 98% in this period.

This quarter the price per GB of LPDDR5X is expected to go from $10 to $19.8

If the price per GB is currently around 10 dollars, a standard LPDDR5 module will cost between 19.3 and 19.8 dollars per GB in the second quarter of 2026. It seems that this increase will not be a one-time thing and will be part of a trend that, for the moment and unfortunately, seems unstoppable: the prices of LPDDR5 contracts have tripled since the beginning of 2025 and the increases are expected to continue without relief well into 2027.

Manufacturers are signing agreements with caps of $21 per GB to avoid even greater increases

To try to stabilize prices and ensure supply, memory manufacturers are signing long-term agreements that define a price cap of $21 per GB. This type of contracts, which is becoming popular in an increasingly stressed sector, will be able to avoid uncontrolled price increases in the future. However, that $21 cap is more than double the current price, so we will still be at much higher amounts than now.