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tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

If consumers aren’t going to or are much less likely to upgrade, then that affects demand from them, and one would expect manufacturers to follow what consumers demand.

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
RAM prices will come down sometime after the AI bubble bursts and they start making more DDR5 again.

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- NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree. Stuff like this is partially necessity and partially a REALLY good excuse to see what the price ceiling actually is… and then turn that into the floor moving forward. Just look at gas prices
  
  The “AI Bubble” is likely to be on the same level as the Dotcom Bubble and the like. It is going to be brutal and a LOT of people are going to lose their jobs… and then much of the same tech will still dominate just with more realistic expectations. And that will still need large amounts of memory
  
  If the “AI Bubble” really is as bad as people seem to want it to be: A LOT of the vendors who make the parts you are buying RAM to use are going to be gutted. And then RAM production will drop drastically. Which will decrease supply and…
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    
    Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.
    
    Prices on memory have virtually always gone down, and at a rapid pace.
    
    ourworldindata.org/…/historical-cost-of-computer-…
    
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