About the project
A memory market reference built from the data outward
Memory Price Chart exists to make a simple question—“what is RAM doing?”—answerable without confusing one deal, one chip-market quote, and one long-run historical series.
What we track
The launch product is a weekly US retail DDR5 index built from new 32GB and 64GB desktop kits. Prices are checked Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and collapsed to weekly product medians. It publishes normalized dollar-per-GB levels, arithmetic mean, basket median, sample breadth, data health, and the product basket behind the point.
Why begin with retail DDR5?
Retail modules are observable and useful to people buying or upgrading a computer. Starting with one narrow, auditable market is more defensible than putting DRAM, NAND, HBM, consumer modules, and confidential contracts onto one unexplained line.
Where the site is going
NAND flash and HBM matter to the wider memory story, especially as AI infrastructure changes demand and production economics. They will be added only as separately sourced series with methods that match their markets. NAND can use consumer SSD observations; HBM requires specialist estimates because it has no public retail or spot market.
Independence and funding
The site is a free public reference. It does not sell memory, rank products for sponsors, execute trades, or provide investment advice. There is no signup or paid account at launch. If funding or affiliate relationships are added later, they will be disclosed and kept out of index eligibility.
Who maintains it
Memory Price Chart is built and maintained by the Memory Price Chart project. No external expert review, certification, or endorsement is claimed. The method, source boundaries, and revision date are published so readers can evaluate the work itself.
Corrections
Product classifications and data sources can be wrong. Use the protected contact form to report a specific issue without exposing a private recipient address.