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Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 9 months ago by tal@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago (11 children)

RAM prices will come down sometime after the AI bubble bursts and they start making more DDR5 again.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 months ago (10 children)

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...

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

Prices on memory have virtually always gone down, and at a rapid pace.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage

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[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

people say go back in time to pick the correct lotto number

I say go back in time and sell my 8TB disk for 80 billion

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, no. Computers until recently (2000s or so) were incompatible with modern protocols required for that much memory.

[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 1 points 9 months ago

Bring back my computer as well

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