Image: With the PC market slowing down due to the weakened economy and challenges from new devices like iPad, the drop in the price of DRAM chips may accelerate in coming months (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...am_prices.html). That's the assessment from chipmaker Samsung, which is warning that if PC sales don't improve, they'll have to lower prices on RAM chips due to "oversupply." Prices have been down since July, when the crisis in Greece sent shockwaves through the global economy, and a Samsung executive says they will continue their fall unless sales surge during the Christmas holiday and Chinese New Year. Kwon Oh-hyun, President of the Semiconductor Business of Samsung Electronics, told attendees at the company's mobile equipment conference in Taipei (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6861U720100907) that slow computer sales may lead to a glut of RAM on the market. Oh-hyun said that mobile phones and servers were providing enough demand to keep prices "stable," but that the PC business had taken a big hit due in significant part to challenges from devices like the iPad, "which use fewer DRAM components than desktops and notebooks." With its...

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