‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained

Comments

• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "The US tariffs imposed on China on 1 August 2025, played a substantial role in the increase in DRAM prices. " DJT say he gonna lower prices on day one. NOPE.

  source

  • the_tab_key@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, he didn’t necessarily lie, August 1st wasn’t day 1 of his presidency. He didn’t say anything about rising costs afterwards!

    source

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I'm pretty sure we could all have quite reasonably expected rising costs, destruction of science, frittering of international standing, increased morbidity and mortality, etc.

      source
  • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure those tariffs have some impact in the US, but ram prices are outrageously high outside the US as well. They’re not the real factor here.

    source

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I'm just quoting the article. Sounds like you have more to add, care to comment on what IS 'the real factor'?

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “AI” thanks for coming to my ted talk

  source

  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seems like AI might be going to cause hyperinflation soon…

    source
  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah we’ve called stupid npcs on rails AI for decades. I’m not hearing it with this. It’s AI until it becomes intelligent, no matter how stupid it is now.

    source

    • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hence the quotations

      source
• Kiernian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If nobody can afford anything with more than 8 gigs of ram for their office workers, they’ll all just pay for more AI tokens because otherwise the 900ms keystroke latency in MS Word would make it impossible to work, right?

  I would be shocked if that wasn’t on some AI company’s brainstorm board as a positive side effect (for them) of all of this.

  source
• 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But theres a happily ever after, right? Right?!?

  source
• skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like the end goal is us to be using thin client that can’t even browse the web, we will have a content slop scrolled in the middle, you swipe right and you have an AI chat box to search information, send messages, it all has to be done with AI. Oh and you need scan your ID and pay subscriptions for each AI feature you enable, you will own nothing and work all day you won’t have time to browse the web so the AI will do it for you

  source

  • deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’d think, but web apps take immense amounts of ram

    source
• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Create artificial scarcity to drive up prices thanks to foolish venture capitalists dumping money into GPU- and RAM-hungry AI vaporware. Free money.

  Consumers get hosed due to high prices, major investors make bank on overinflated stock value, eventual crash, everyday consumers and investors get hosed, companies get bailouts while employees get laid off.

  source

  • Ancalagon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You forgot the part where the poor revolt and the rich use drones to quell it. Good luck.

    source