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32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 33 points 3 days ago

And when all you can afford is a shitty tablet with 8GB of RAM and no storage, you’ll have to use web apps and store everything in the cloud, a privilege you will rent, while they scan it for ad revenue, government tattling, and dubious copyright claims. They’ll see market trends as they begin to happen, they’ll understand new inventions before they’re built, and they will control all that you see and hear.

They’re stealing cyberspace.

[-] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I hear you, but there is no conspiracy by Big Web 3.0 behind this, it's just bubble economics.

RAM was profitable at ¼ current prices a year ago. Nothing of significance has changed to the price of materials (well, ignoring the temporary insanity of the US/Israel war on Iran War).

If current demand was expected to be stable long term, then, most likely, new production would quickly-ish (~3 years?) come online to capture more profits.

But nobody is expecting this to last, so there's limited interest in building new chip fabs. So prices will stay high until the AI crash.

No conspiracy required; just economics.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

DOOOOOM!

Unless you are working on some massive project, 5 year old hardware and local storage is totally servicable. My server is from 2016, my NAS is from 2009. No one is putting a gun to your head and making you use Onshape, Makerworld, or Adobe.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

And this is why I’m aggressively sailing the seas and stocking up, as afterwards I’ll just watch things and touch grass. Internet be damned.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I picked up 2x32 last year before the craze at 130e. It's ddr4 but still... around a 6x increase

[-] loreng@beehaw.org 9 points 2 days ago

I got 64GB DDR5 last January for $209.99 US. The same kit is now a ludicrous $1163.99 US. This is so, so fucking stupid.

[-] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

+100,000,000,000 social credit to any Chinese DRAM maker who can make some good DDR5!

[-] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Aren't Corsair already shipping some kits with Chinese manufactured modules?

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