So this weekend I went looking for DDR 4 and even those were 2-3X times the cost from two years ago. Honestly fuck AI.
I built my wife a computer with eBay find and marketplace deals. Only because i already had the memory and ssd+nvme i was going to use though. That would have literally doubled the price lol
If I wait long enough maybe my backup server with 256GB of RDIMM DDR4 will pay off a chunk of my solar install.
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.
Thankfully Chinese manufacturers are scaling up. It’s a matter of time before memory is cheap again.
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.
Keep artificially raising those prices and you’ll soon find that the “demand” has shifted to something else entirely. The whole world, it seems, is pricing customers out of the market. How does that make sense (unless you are going for dependence and reliance upon the government)? My new mantra is “bring back filing cabinets and stationery”, it’s cheaper and uses less electricity and paper.
That’s not likely. What is likely is that computers that can still work with very small memory footprints become more popular. Microsoft is going to scramble. Apple is going to raise prices, and has already started selling cell phones on payment plans. Linux can often be better at running with low-memory setups, and those are going to be more and more popular.
Fuck me…
Meanwhile White House trying to force Apple to not find cheaper Chinese RAM, and force $200 higher Iphone prices, and then $200 higher ram prices for everyone else.
Good time to be someone who uses hardware for a decade and not need an upgrade.
Unless that decade happens go end now. Then you have to be someone who uses hardware for 2 decades.
