Analysts of DRAMeXchange, research unit TrendForce, reported on the continued increase in prices for memory. Data leads the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

According to researchers, in the first quarter of 2017 global sales of DRAM chips. Dynamic random access memory) for personal computers and servers amounted to a record $ 14.1 billion, which is 13.4% more compared to the previous three months.

This recovery was largely due to the increase in the contract value of computer memory modules by at least 30%. Experts expect that in the second quarter of memory will rise in price by more than 10%.

"The market for mobile DRAM-memory has temporarily cooled down, but the server segment is still quite hot in the second quarter," the DRAMeXchange report says..

According to analysts, the growing demand for expensive PCs using high-end DRAM chips stimulates an increase in memory prices. As for the largest manufacturers of DRAM-memory, they are still South Korean companies Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which account for more than 70% of the world market.

According to the results of the first three months of 2017, Samsung's revenue from sales of RAM increased by 6.8% quarter-on-quarter and reached $ 6.32 billion, which corresponds to a market share of 44.8%.

Samsung continues to significantly outperform these indicators of other chipmakers. For example, SK Hynix, the world's second-largest DRAM producer, earned a little more than $ 4 billion on the sale of this type of microchip, and as a result, its share in the same period was only 28.7%. At the same time, experts noted the impressive growth rate of SK Hynix: DRAM-revenue of the company increased by 21.5% relative to the previous three-month period.

American Micron also showed an impressive rise in the first quarter. DRAM-revenue of the company increased by 22.

3%, from 2.4 to 2.96 billion dollars, while the market share increased from 19.4% to 21%.

Traditionally, experts are also conducting data on three Taiwanese DRAM chip manufacturers, which in January-March jointly provided less than 5% of global revenue from the sale of RAM. The share of Nanya accounted for 2.8% or 394 million. Dollars, the contribution of Winbond analysts was estimated at 1.1% (157 million dollars), and Powerchip - in 0.8% (110 million dollars).