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DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% as AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/technology@piefed.social
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and expect another 40% rise later this year.

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[–] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh shit, my random pile of legacy memory might be worth something? Still got some DDR and RDRAM laying around too.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ddr2 is still being made?!

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    • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What in the actual hell is this? I thought that Google thing had cooled down the RAM spike

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    the thing with ram and AI is that these things are turned into ramdrives, even with ddr2 speeds, ramdrives could still be somewhat on par with modern ssd. Now that theres some AI models that could run on drives, the "economics" of hardware in relation to AI will remain painful for common folks who likes computers. fuck this shit tbh.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    What the actual fuck. I would've expected most of that to be scrapped as e-waste by now.

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