Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
IMO, the pricing is an extortion scam rather than a real shortage. People are falling for it because of AI hype narrative. Best to wait it out.
dil@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They are manufacturing only 35% of consumer ram compared to what they were before? The supply is really going down?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s by choice. Samsung did announce recently that they are going back to consumer ram production instead of trying to compete for low margin big contracts on current gen hbm. At half of current prices, ddr5 is more profitable than HBM even for hynix (leader).
dil@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They have to have more than enough ram bought up at some point, cant be scaling up infinitely