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Two Decades of Cheaper Memory Vanished in One Brutal Year
www.gadgetreview.com/two-decades-of-cheaper-memory-vanished-in-one-brutal-year
Gadget ReviewTwo Decades of Cheaper Memory Vanished in One Brutal YearMemory prices are surging up to 95% as AI dominates chip supply — analysts warn costs won't normalize until 2028, so buy RAM and SSDs now.Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
Yeah that’s happened before, with both memory and hard drives. A flood in Thailand caused HDD shortages and price spikes for a year or two around 2012, and there was a similar situation with DRAM some years earlier. There have also been GPU and SSD shortages due to cryptocurrency idiots. This may just be more of the same.
Replying to @solrize@lemmy.ml
In capitalism, if the demand is outstripping supply then eventually higher prices will command greater investment and the eventual return to normalcy of the supply vs demand curve. In theory it is more of the same, but how prolonged it will be will be dependent on when the AI supply/demand curve achieves normalcy.
Replying to @RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
Unfortunately besides chips, another huge input to this AI crap is electric power, which is coming mostly from expanding fossil fuel consumption and thus increasing planetary heating. Economists’ intersecting curves are of no help with that.