Kingston Technology vice president David Sun said yesterday that prices for standard DRAM will not go down further through the end of the year due to slow growth on the supply side amid memory makers’ expansion in their flash and niche DRAM production.

Sun, a founder of the world’s largest memory module supplier, said as flash offers higher margins than DRAM, chief memory makers, such as Hynix Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics, are unlikely to reduce their production of flash in order to increase their DRAM output.

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