Another vendor, another price hike. The RAMpocalypse keeps pushing hardware costs, and there is no sign of stopping.
Framework Announces Another Price Hike for its Products as LPCAMM2 Costs Grew Over 2X in a Small Time Frame
The latest price hike in memory will shock you, and this is probably the highest price hike we have seen in months, especially for the LPCAMM2 memory modules. OEMs and system integrators have been announcing new price hikes for months now, and it's not surprising to see another price adjustment by these vendors.
Popular OEM Framework has an update on the same. The company has already announced price adjustments a few times this year, but this might be the biggest of all. Its Laptop 13 Pro just got incredibly expensive, which is based on LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory. Framework says that while it tries to absorb the memory costs as much as possible, this time, they are forced to increase the prices as the LPCAMM2 sourcing costs grew by as much as >2X.
However, we recently received a cost update from our LPCAMM2 supplier that goes far beyond anything we had predicted and anything we’re able to absorb without placing our ability to operate at real financial risk. Rather than the low-to-mid double-digit percentage increase we had forecast from Q2 to Q3 on LPCAMM2 costs, we received prices that are more than double that of the prior inventory we had brought in.
- Framework
The company expected a "low-to-mid" double-digit percentage increase going from Q2 to Q3, but the new costs are so substantially high that they cannot absorb the impact anymore. According to Framework, the prices have grew by more than double compared to the price they had to pay for the previous inventory. This has caused almost an immediate change in the overall pricing of its products.
Framework says that those who have already pre-ordered the Laptop 13 Pro will receive their devices at the original price, but won't honor the original memory configuration for every order. Framework says it has enough 64 GB modules at the moment to cover the pre-orders through Batch 4 of laptops and Batch 7 of Mainboards, and orders following those will have 32 GB modules at the original 32 GB module prices as the company is changing 64 GB pre-orders with 32 GB configuration.
Currently, adding 16 GB LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory increases the cost of the Laptop 13 Pro by $239, but you will be shocked to see the price with 32 GB and 64 GB configurations. Previously, one would be able to get the 32 GB capacity for around $439, but now you will have to pay a whopping $800 for 32 GB LPCAMM2. Similarly, the 64 GB capacity will now cost $1600 instead of $849.
As mentioned above, the company has currently kept the original cost of 16 GB LPCAMM2 memory for its products, but as soon as the existing inventory is depleted, it will introduce it at a much higher cost, as the newer inventory has been bought for a much higher price. Moreover, the product costs are also affected by the price increase in Core Ultra Series 3 processors, which impacts X7 and X9 SKUs.
News Source: Framework
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