Ram demand expected to drop another 40-50% in Q3?
I still demand new RAM, but still caan’t afford it
Let me check…
Yeah, Morrowind still runs fine. I’m cool.
Truly hate this timeline
I’ve been looking at used PCs and usually those are just missing the gpu, but now I’ve been seeing no RAM and no SSD. At least with the gpu only being missing it was semi functional if there was integrated graphics, but now you are just basically buying a brick until you can get 3 components that cost 400 or so USD
Honestly, what’s the point in selling the machine at all at that point. Clearly those components are worth more out of the machine than in.
Guess I’ll keep using my DDR3 machine for a few more years.
Isn’t ddr4 pretty affordable at this point?
No. Even DDR3 prices have skyrocketed.
Couldn’t even buy a Raspberry Pi nowadays :(
Now it’s paying for RAM with a bonus Pi attached.
Yeah, a RPi 5 16GB is almost at laptop prices now. At least here.
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They were grouping together to all raise prices at once. If everyone who sold food suddenly raised their costs together, would it be fair? There’d be consumers to buy it. Basic economics!
Just because people would pay more for something, doesn’t mean they should have to
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The problem lies in 3 companies owning a monopoly on dram production and all conspiring together to make things shit for everyone who isn’t them
3 companies can’t all have a monopoly on the same thing lol
If they’re running a price-fixing scheme they sure can
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Just need to sign a few more multi-billion contracts of massive data centers that will totally get built out.
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Then micron is going to lose money as they have been getting businesses to lock in for 5 years.
Yeah, I’m not sure they’re going to go up that far into the future.
That is potentially 100s of millions that Micron left on the table.
Who does that?
What price did micron lock businesses in at though?
At this rate I’ll be able to part out my homelab and pay off my mortgage soon
Literal homelab.
Hetzner just raised their VPS prices for the second time in two months, 300-400%. Not sure how much more of this I can bear lol
Maybe the big 3 are scared that there might be a chance that they are not going to fully win the anti-trust lawsuit and are hiking the prices up, so when they eventually get slapped with a fine of 0.1% of their quarterly profits they can offload that on the customers too.
Virtual memory slider go Brrrrr!
I guess we should dog in and wait for the AI to come crashing down and all kinds of memory stuff going way down.
My friend, I’m sorry to tell you… That’s not how this is going to go.
After the crash, no matter how you shake it, three truths will be standing between you and affordable ram at home.
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None of the backlog of product that had been fabricated will be useful and adaptable for Consumer equipment. They can’t just repackage any of the HBM products to fit in our computers.
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Every ram manufacturer will suddenly be facing a cash flow problem as their principal (and in some cases, ONLY) accounts receivable will be dodging them and checks won’t clear.
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All of the equipment thst manufacterers the memory chips will need to be retooled and all of the supply chain paths to packagers and Distributors will need to be spun up and rebuilt.
All of this hurts the memory pricing we pay at the end of the line.
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Not my dodge truck! Oh, wait…
