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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 20 points 6 days ago (1 child)

memory prices have become entirely divorced from reality

No, because that is the reality we live in.

It is probably not just Ai companies to blame for, but also the cartel of RAM manufacturers.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Thankfully Chinese manufacturers are scaling up. It's a matter of time before memory is cheap again.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago

    As long as the Chinese say 'just for consumers only. Big corps and data centers can get their RAM elsewhere'.

    Remember. What they are doing is the same thing that Rockefeller did to bankrupt his competitors. He didn't make a better product. He simply made it impossible for them to function.

    They abso-fucking-lutely would buy all the RAM they can at a loss and shred them to make sure we can't get them. They just have to ask uncle Trump for more money at our expense.

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