Smith’s director of global commodities, Claudio Chan, explains how to navigate the complexities of the ongoing DDR4 end-of-life with flexibility, strategy and knowledge DDR4 may be dead, but the challenges are just beginning. A little more than a year after Samsung, SK hynix and Micron announced that they were transitioning away from DDR4 to focus on new generations and higher bandwidths, DDR4 demand remains strong on the open market. Existing backlogs, lower-end server infrastructure, ongoing expansion of online platforms and upgrades to installed systems have sustained the…