Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.

    In 2011, there was a large flood in Thailand that impacted ~40% of hard drive manufacturing. As a result, hard drives significantly increased in price. This was back when SSDs weren’t mainstream yet.

    A year or two later, when manufacturing capacity was restored, prices were essentially back to what they were before the disruption.

    Apart from disruptions like that, HDDs, SSDs, and RAM have always been going down in price.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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