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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
The GPU shortage may have ended but the crazy prices never really went away
Because as the crypto demand ended, the AI demand for high end gpus rose
Replying to @ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
There was some time in between actually
And prices settled a bit during those few months.