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While global contract prices for DRAM show no signs of recovery, the price of 256Mbit DDR has seen temporary support at US$3, as several leading DRAM makers maintain a bias towards holding inventory rather than selling at a loss. However, DRAM prices are unlikely to recover in the near term due to the traditional second-quarter weakness in the IT sector and the potential repercussions of SARS on IT demand, market participants said.