Original Aochips illustration of DRAM, NAND and SSD market trends in Q3 2026

July 2026 Memory Brief: Q3 Prices, CXMT IPO and DDR5-8000+

Updated 17 July 2026, Australia/Sydney.

Memory prices are still moving up, CXMT has reached the subscription stage of its Shanghai IPO, and new motherboard BIOS work is improving support for CXMT-based DDR5. Here are the three developments that matter today.

1. Storage market: increases continue, but at a slower pace

Original Aochips illustration of DRAM, NAND and SSD market trends in Q3 2026
AI infrastructure is supporting memory demand while consumer buyers resist further price increases.

TrendForce forecasts Q3 2026 contract prices to rise 13%–18% quarter on quarter for conventional DRAM and 10%–15% for NAND Flash. These are industry contract forecasts, not Australian retail quotes.

AI servers and data centres remain the main support for demand. Client SSD buyers are pushing back after building inventory in the first half of the year, while some high-speed enterprise SSDs remain tight. For PC buyers, broad price relief is not yet the base case: compare capacity, endurance and warranty instead of assuming every retail product will follow the same percentage.

2. CXMT stock update: priced, but not yet trading

Original Aochips illustration of CXMT's 2026 Shanghai IPO and DRAM business
CXMT has a confirmed IPO price and stock code, but no normal market quotation yet.

China’s securities regulator approved CXMT’s IPO registration in June. The offering moved to online and offline subscription on 16 July under Shanghai STAR Market stock code 688825, with online subscription code 787825.

The issue price is RMB 8.66 per share. Reports estimate gross proceeds of about RMB 57.9 billion before any overallotment. At this article’s cutoff, the first trading date had not been announced, so RMB 8.66 is an IPO issue price—not a live share price. Unofficial pre-IPO derivatives should not be treated as the Shanghai market quotation.

This is general market information, not investment advice.

3. PC DIY trend: BIOS support is unlocking CXMT DDR5

Original Aochips illustration of a PC builder tuning CXMT-based DDR5 memory
DDR5 performance depends on the memory kit, CPU memory controller, motherboard layout and BIOS training.

MSI announced new tuning for CXMT-based DDR5 on Intel 800-series motherboards. Its published tests reached DDR5-8600 on a two-DIMM Z890 setup and DDR5-8200 on a four-DIMM board. These are vendor test results, not guaranteed speeds for every kit.

  • Update only from the exact motherboard’s official support page.
  • Check the memory support list, capacity and number of installed DIMMs.
  • Stress-test after enabling XMP, EXPO or manual settings.
  • Use the kit’s rated specification as the baseline.

Aochips offers CXMT-based options such as the KingBank KRRW DDR5-6000 32GB kit. New BIOS validation improves the ecosystem, but it does not guarantee that a specific kit will reproduce an overclocking demonstration.

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