Too late, I’m afraid. The supply for DRAM basically can’t adjust, so even if Oracle, Meta, and OpenAI went bankrupt tomorrow, it will take some time to catch up.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Freaking finally. Maybe RAM prices will finally start coming down.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t actually buy it. It won’t fit on memory modules as they are today, but in the end, it’s just faster, higher density, prob has some extra features, but nothing you can’t rework a motherboard or modules to support. of course, min quantity will be like 128GB :)
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s not true at all. It’s not economical to transplant RAM ICs once they’re packaged and soldered onto something.
And if they’re produced as, say, HBM modules, they absolutely cannot be repurposed for, say, DDR5 or LPDDR5 CPUs, or GDDR GPUs. There’s no reworking, the memory buses on processors simply do not support them, and altering them would have a massive development cost.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Look at it from the bright side. Manufacturers are building massive new capacity for demand that will never come. Already produced chips can’t be repurposed but machinery can, easily. In a few years RAM will be dirt cheap.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s not true, from what I’ve read:
www.trendforce.com/…/20251113-12780.html
despite higher ASPs boosting profitability across the memory industry, capital spending on DRAM and NAND Flash is only anticipated to increase modestly in 2026. This limited investment growth is unlikely to significantly affect bit output.
Memory makers are skeptical, too.
xep@discuss.online 1 day ago
They also have a history of forming cartels and colluding to fix ram prices, so I doubt prices will normalize for a while.
notacat@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I was pleasantly surprised to find my laptop is two generations behind so new RAM only cost $20 for an upgrade. One of the few times it pays to be poor.
zbyte64@awful.systems 17 hours ago
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit discounted hardware
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The data centers are still in high demand, Oracle just wants clients to bring their own chips.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They can just keep prices same and pocket the profif, no?
Smoogs@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They could but that just begs for a random country to start developing cheap ram to swoop in.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Only if they can still find buyers at the inflated price. I’m not aware of any consumers buying RAM right now, so I doubt they would be able to.