Last updated: October 31, 2026 · Refresh cadence: WEEKLY · Trend tracking starts with this edition except where a prior-period figure is shown.
Semiconductor Prices & Chip Market Data — Market Data
The chip industry just printed its biggest year ever and, in the same breath, priced memory like a shortage good. Both facts are true, and the tension between them is the whole story: logic and memory sales surged on AI demand while that same demand drained the DRAM supply that every other buyer depends on.
This page tracks the two series that matter most for anyone pricing chip exposure — the industry's own annual sales totals, and the memory spot and contract prices that move week to week. Annual totals tell you where the cycle stands. Memory prices tell you where it is going next.
Industry sales: Semiconductor Industry Association / WSTS
| Figure | Value | Trend vs prior period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global semiconductor sales, August 2026 | $159.7 billion | Prior: $65.4 billion (August 2025); $147.9 billion (July 2026) ▲ Up 144.3% YoY; up 8% MoM | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Year-to-date global sales through August 2026 | More than $1 trillion | First time ever in a calendar year to date ▲ Up | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Regional growth, August 2026 | Americas +180.9%; Asia Pacific/All Other +143.0%; China +131.3%; Europe +98.5%; Japan +62.3% | Year-over-year comparison published in the same release ▲ Up | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Global semiconductor sales, 2025 | $791.7 billion | Prior: $630.5 billion (2024) ▲ Up 25.6% | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Global semiconductor sales, Q4 2025 | $236.6 billion | Prior: Q4 2024, up 37.1% year over year; up 13.6% vs Q3 2025 ▲ Up 37.1% YoY | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Global semiconductor sales, December 2025 | $78.9 billion | Prior: November 2025, up 2.7% month over month ▲ Up 2.7% MoM | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Logic product sales, 2025 | $301.9 billion — largest product category | Prior: 2024, up 39.9% year over year ▲ Up 39.9% | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Memory product sales, 2025 | $223.1 billion — second-largest category | Prior: 2024, up 34.8% year over year ▲ Up 34.8% | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Global sales projection, 2026 | Exceed $1.6 trillion | Prior: roughly $1 trillion (February 2026 projection) ▲ Projected rise | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Regional growth, 2025 — Asia Pacific / All Others | Up 45.0% | Prior-year comparison published in the same release ▲ Up | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
| Regional growth, 2025 — Americas / China / Europe / Japan | Americas up 30.5%; China up 17.3%; Europe up 6.3%; Japan down 4.7% | Prior-year comparison published in the same release ● Mixed | Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) |
Memory prices: the shortage series
| Figure | Value | Trend vs prior period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRAM contract prices, Q3 2025 | 171.8% higher than a year earlier | Prior: Q3 2024 ▲ Up 171.8% YoY | Tom's Hardware data, via XDA Developers |
| Samsung 32GB DDR5 module contract price | About $149 in September 2025 rising to about $239 in November 2025 | Prior: September 2025 level ▲ Up ~60% in two months | Reuters, via BuySellRam |
| DDR5 retail kits, October 2026 | 32GB DDR5-6000 kit, $449 best current US price | Prior staged range: about $350–$450; new figure sits at the top of that range ● Flat | Tom's Hardware RAM price index (Oct 12, 2026), as reported via this summary |
| DRAM contract prices since September 2025 | Up nearly 400% (Bloomberg, reported mid-2026) | Prior: September 2025 level ▲ Up ~400% | Bloomberg, via TechTimes |
| Conventional DRAM contract prices, Q4 2026 (projection) | Projected +10–15% quarter over quarter; NAND Flash +15–20% | Projection, not a realized price ▲ Projected rise (TrendForce Sept 30, 2026 outlook, as reported via the linked summary) | TrendForce outlook, as reported via this summary |
| DDR5-16G spot price | $60.91 per die, Oct 22 session average | Prior-year comparison on the same spot board ▲ Up 480.00% YoY | DRAMeXchange / TrendForce spot board, as reported via this tracker |
Methodology
Included: SIA/WSTS annual and quarterly sales totals (public releases, three-month moving averages), and memory price moves as reported by Reuters, Bloomberg, and Tom's Hardware through public summaries. Excluded: paywalled TrendForce tables — no TrendForce table is reproduced verbatim here; where a summary cites TrendForce, only the summary's headline figure is used and it is attributed as such. Spot prices move weekly and are the reason this page refreshes weekly; annual SIA totals refresh when SIA publishes.
Trend labels: “Baseline (October 2026) — trend tracking starts with the next refresh” means no prior-period figure from the same source was available this session, so no movement is claimed. Where a prior figure is shown, the trend compares the current figure with that prior figure from the same source.
Disclaimer
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Changelog
- October 2026: First edition, published as a staged page. Figures compiled from the public sources listed in SOURCES.md, with trend indicators and baseline labels as shown above. Next refresh follows the WEEKLY cadence in SOURCES.md; the sitemap lastmod for this page is to be updated on every refresh once deployed.
- October 31, 2026: SIA 2026 projection raised to exceeding $1.6 trillion; August 2026 monthly sales ($159.7 billion), year-to-date sales above $1 trillion, and August regional growth added; DDR5 retail price updated to the October 2026 $449 best-price figure; Q4 2026 TrendForce projection and DDR5-16G spot price added. 2025 annual totals unchanged.