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

BUDFORCE said:
If this gets really bad, and it's starting to look that way, the price of everything could end up going up, not just restricted to PC hardware, but every electronic device that uses memory.
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This might not happen - really emphasising might. For use cases where low quality or small capacity/density RAM is needed, the Chinese players will likely keep that game afloat. The issue is that, if every RAM manufacturer goes all in on AI profit seeking, then the price of everything else will undoubtedly go up.

There's also that double edged sword of AI companies buying up capacity to use but also just attempting to cripple their competitors. Who knows how low they will sink to keep the game going.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Yup and we've been hit hard in recent years, GPU prices with the mining thing, that despite what some say I don't think ever really went quite back to pre 2020/2021 , granted they have been slightly more sensible in the last year.
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Yep.

I think another area where it was flagged, was the home server market. Recently there has been a real push around privacy and running stuff on your own cloud. And I've run mixture of Synology, self-build and mini PCs as servers over the years (cheaper, files servers mostly). But again with memory going up and electric costs higher than they were that's going to be more expensive too.

One benefit is environmental I suppose as people run stuff longer, learn to repair, or buy secondhand.
 
Deleted member 280263 said:
God forbid, someone gets offended ;) :cry:
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That was actually a thing back in the 1970s/80s when "pocket" calculators first became affordable. I can't remember who it was (there were plenty of clueless wannabees then as now) but someone suggested 7 segment displays should be changed for that reason.

They also said it'd have an effect on brain development (times tables, division etc) which was widely ridiculed. They may have had a point on that one but only when you start looking at how much each of us uses the internet as a "memory aid" for even simple stuff.

Anyway back to selling the children for RAM thread....
 
Vestas said:
That was actually a thing back in the 1970s/80s when "pocket" calculators first became affordable. I can't remember who it was (there were plenty of clueless wannabees then as now) but someone suggested 7 segment displays should be changed for that reason.

They also said it'd have an effect on brain development (times tables, division etc) which was widely ridiculed. They may have had a point on that one but only when you start looking at how much each of us uses the internet as a "memory aid" for even simple stuff.

Anyway back to selling the children for RAM thread....
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Haha!
That reminds me when Nixon said that they'd done studies that found smoking cannabis, would turn you into a homosexual - during his war on drugs speech :cry:

If you sell your children for RAM, make sure you use a decent VPN ;)
 
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Deleted member 280263 said:
Haha!
That reminds me when Nixon said that they'd done studies that found smoking cannabis, would turn you into a homosexual - during his war on drugs speech :cry:

If you sell your children for RAM, make sure you use a decent VPN ;)
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My children are too old and one comes with a mortgage so we're talking DDR4 :D
 
hobib_ali said:
what!!

are you for real?

you paid 200 for 64gb of ram and now its 600 quid?! that triple the cost, wtf is goin on, its a non moving part, its like printing paper, how comes the regulators dont get involved

this is obscene, i swear some ceo out there is rubbing his hand's in glee as they are getting away with daylight robbery and its a crime, you cant triple the cost or RAM and leave everything else as normal, there deffo something going on 100%

so, if someone is building a DDR5 system what can they do to hold them down until it gets back to normal?

I mean can someone not buy a single stick of 8/16gb ram at the lowest cheapest speed to run on their set up until they buy a full set on RRP ?
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I bought similar 64GB DDR5 only 9 weeks ago for £219 (with extra £20 bonus from Quidco so actually £199) ... admittedly this was from a shop mainly selling TVs and washing machines which clearly hadn't spotted the sudden price rises as computer component retailers all had already raised prices to £289-299 at that time ... and in this years "summer sales" it had been down as low as £180!
 
deshepherd said:
Anyway, 32GB of DDR5 now is about the same price as 16MB of (used) SDR I remember buying in, I think, 1992 ... and that's not considering inflation either!
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We know ;) That's why it's surprising that people keep stating the obvious, page after page :P
 
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Deleted member 280263 said:
I swear this thread is turn into 100's of pages of "wow I didn't realise, I paid X for mine X time ago! I should sell it and buy a house!" :cry:
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I did a quick calc and during my (multi)annual home/family hardware refresh (tablet,lappie,desktop,other stuff away) this year I've bought just under 300GB of DDR5/6.

Admittedly 128GB is in one machine.

I dodged most of the bullets in terms of pricing.

Won't be buying again for a while....
 
Vestas said:
That was actually a thing back in the 1970s/80s when "pocket" calculators first became affordable. I can't remember who it was (there were plenty of clueless wannabees then as now) but someone suggested 7 segment displays should be changed for that reason.
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It was Clive Sinclair (showing my age now :cry: and remember the calculator and watch that came out back then). Sinclair executive calculator it was called back in 1972.

Some Google AI info :-

Sir Clive Sinclair is widely credited with inventing the first truly pocket-sized calculator, the Sinclair Executive, launched in 1972, which made the technology small, affordable, and accessible to the public, kickstarting a revolution in consumer electronics alongside his famous home computers.

Key Details:

  • The Invention: The Sinclair Executive, released in 1972, was the first calculator small enough to fit comfortably in a pocket, weighing just 2.5 ounces (71g) and measuring 9mm thick.
  • Innovation: Sinclair achieved this miniaturization by reducing the power input needed for the calculator chip, making it significantly smaller and cheaper than existing models.
  • Impact: It transformed the market, becoming a functional business machine and a status symbol, even earning a Design Council Award for its design.
  • Legacy: The pocket calculator was a major step in Sinclair's broader push to bring technology to the masses, following his early work on radio kits and preceding the iconic ZX series of home computers

The watch was called Black Watch (wristwatch) 1975, can read more about it here :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(wristwatch)
 
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