DRAM Prices Surge 172% YoY with No Signs of Slowing Down

Nick1881 said:
ARe prices likely to drop again? I was planning an upgreade, but think I will forget it now.
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Not anytime soon unfortunately.

Unless you need to buy I’d just hold off as the price increases are ridiculous.

Out of curiosity I keep checking on the kit I bought, which I paid £250 for and it’s now close to £600. Absolutely disgusting.
 
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Insane stuff. I looked a week ago to see that I paid £139 for 64gb laptop ram in May, and the price last week was at £209. Just checked today and it's now at £275. Jesus.
 
It's going way out of control and I don't see it slowing down any time soon. If i'm remembering correctly, DDR4 prices have actually gone up more than DDR5 due to the lower supply. I presumed it would be the other way around, but I guess not.
 
Cydia said:
It's going way out of control and I don't see it slowing down any time soon. If i'm remembering correctly, DDR4 prices have actually gone up more than DDR5 due to the lower supply. I presumed it would be the other way around, but I guess not.
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DDR5 demand is outstripping supply so prices are rocketing. The manufacturers are very wary about building more capacity, which can take years and cost billions, in case the AI bubble finally bursts and DDR5 demand craters and they're left with RAM they can't sell at the price they need. Not to mention they're all happy as Larry that prices have doubled but their manufacturing costs have remained relatively static.
 
MissChief said:
DDR5 demand is outstripping supply so prices are rocketing. The manufacturers are very wary about building more capacity, which can take years and cost billions, in case the AI bubble finally bursts and DDR5 demand craters and they're left with RAM they can't sell at the price they need. Not to mention they're all happy as Larry that prices have doubled but their manufacturing costs have remained relatively static.
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Agreed that demand will be completely outstripping supply. My concern is how long this will go on for and how high prices will go. If it carries on at the same rate surely consumers will just stop buying meaning more shops are just stocking high-cost ram with no real way of selling and retaining any level of margin on them.
 
Cydia said:
If it carries on at the same rate surely consumers will just stop buying meaning more shops are just stocking high-cost ram with no real way of selling and retaining any level of margin on them.
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That is definitely a likely outcome. Unless someone really needs ram they’ll just hold off.

What might happen is retailers hold less stock because of less sales which makes supply even rarer and cause even higher prices.

Nvme drives and graphics cards haven’t changed much in price so far but it’ll be interesting to see what happens to those prices.
 
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Baring any early failures as I built last year I’m hoping I can ride out the worse of this AI nonsense although they’ll probably be something else come along then as an excuse to jack up prices, seems never ending trend in the PC space these days.
 
ChocAndGray said:
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Nvme drives and graphics cards haven’t changed much in price so far but it’ll be interesting to see what happens to those prices.
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Because GPUs use ddr6 &7, that supply is contracted and production lines are already set accordingly.

Until ddr6 /7 become mainstream as with ddr5 the it should be relatively stable for now.

Nvme drives use different modules, the market at present is relatively stable for hard drive modules. Though well see what happens in the very near future
 
sx_turbo said:
Because GPUs use ddr6 &7, that supply is contracted and production lines are already set accordingly.

Until ddr6 /7 become mainstream as with ddr5 the it should be relatively stable for now.

Nvme drives use different modules, the market at present is relatively stable for hard drive modules. Though well see what happens in the very near future
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GDDR6 is up on average by around $15 per 8GB which AICs are now charging for and hence come Q1 next year GPUs will be a bit more expensive.
 
The question is, Why would major data centers source consumer grade ram , personally i think it's all one big steaming pile of donkey doo, all in the name of greed creating a fake shortage... it'll end up with ram prices never returning to the prices they should be.
Like graphics cards didn't,they're still overpriced a tier above their performance in the line ups.
 
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Nevakonaza said:
The question is, Why would major data centers source consumer grade ram , personally i think it's all one big steaming pile of donkey doo, all in the name of greed creating a fake shortage... it'll end up with ram prices never returning to the prices they should be.
Like graphics cards didn't,they're still overpriced a tier above their performance in the line ups.
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Well they’re obviously not using consumer grade ram like Corsair and g.skill kits that we would buy, and I don’t believe anyone has suggested that.

It’s that manufacturing is removing the focus from consumer ram and focusing on a.i servers etc. That’s causing a shortage of supply on consumer ram which is causing the price to rise.

Ultimately the ram use the same chips cut from the same silicon wafers and there’s less of them allocated to consumers ram kits.

Samsung and SK Hynix have signed a nice contract with an ai company that’ll make them more money. It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s some some shady stuff in the background. It’s not the first time it’s happened with the previous price fix shenanigans years back. It’s a win win for both of them as consumers have to pay more money…

sx_turbo said:
Because GPUs use ddr6 &7, that supply is contracted and production lines are already set accordingly.

Until ddr6 /7 become mainstream as with ddr5 the it should be relatively stable for now.

Nvme drives use different modules, the market at present is relatively stable for hard drive modules. Though well see what happens in the very near future
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I hope things don’t change but I’m sure I read that ai centres were buying massive amounts of storage too so I’d assume the same thing will happen, there’ll be a shortage of nand chips for consumer nvme drives as the focus shifts to ai centres and we will be shafted.

I’d love to think the ai bubble will burst but I think ai is going nowhere. It’ll only increase and be plastered everywhere.

Personally if I needed an nvme drive I’d buy sooner rather than later just incase…
 
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I’ve never understood people almost rubbing their hands together that the AI bubble would burst. It’s destroyed the hardware market, but if it all just fell apart, we wouldn’t be laughing as the economy crumbled.
I’m concerned how much it will cost for a new PC next year, given GPUs are going to be rocketing upwards and we aren’t even close to the ultimate DDR5 price yet. :(

Memory manufacturers laughing as they say they’ll only have a slight increase in production. Why would they want to fix this? They’re all in bed together and will be making serious profit from this.
 
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