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RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

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[–] 38 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Lived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990's, when the price of RAM exploded with the web, armed robberies of manufacturing plants and warehouses for RAM became a thing for a few years.

Insert <Aw shit, here we go again . meme>

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I think the RAM manufacturers were found to be guilty of colluding/price-fixing in that case (maybe this case too).

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Altman secretly secured 40 % of the world's DRAM manufacturing capacity last month. Supposedly Samsung and HK Hynix weren't aware they were both signing up for it.

    That alone would be enough to call collusion if it wasn't an obvious play to strangle his competition by literally choking them out of hardware.

    https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago*

    But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ramped up to infinity and beyond. I'm expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.

    Kind of \s, kind of not

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