Time for Intel to re-enter the memory market?
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
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#22the other side of the AI bubble are a huge amount of 2nd hand parts of all kinds going to come onto the market?
A lot of the goods won't be essily repurposible for consumer or small business work loads.
Imagine if auto manufacturers all refitted their factories and supply chains to produce military vehicles for a war effort. New family cars would run dry, and when the war ended, some folks would figure out make clever use of some surplus military vehicles for street travel and commerce, but most of the surplus would just be shifted to other military markets and family car production would take some time to resume.
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#23Stagflation!
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#24A possible answer as to why this is happening. https://thememoryguy.com/some-clarity-on-2025s-ddr4-price-su...
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#25Inflation metrics seem to fail to capture the increase in leading-edge tech products of the past 18 months.
They don’t capture anything going up because that would shame dear leader
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What a ridiculous statement. We have a massive number of people in the USA relying on financial support for purchasing food. Not every single American is fat, especially those who literally can’t afford to eat.
the reality I observe does not align with your Dickensonian version of it. food is laughably cheap in the US.
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#27I hate this. PC gaming is my hobby, the only one that’s lasted my whole life. It’s always been there. It’s how I met my wife. It’s how I relax after a long day. It’s how I’ve participated in so many stories that stick with me and given me so many memories.
All of it is being murdered by the AI bros. Before them it was the crypto bros. It’s one thing after the other and I hate it so much.
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#28Apple system config upgrades not looking so bad anymore
Came here looking for this comment.
I wonder how much price increase it takes for Apple to raise theirs.
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#29the other side of the AI bubble are a huge amount of 2nd hand parts of all kinds going to come onto the market?
Waiting for all my out of use 4, 8, and 16GB DDR3 DIMMs that I have somewhere in a drawer to become the new gold standard first.
I'm finding that getting an LGA socket to give me two reliable memory channels is far more valuable than the sticks that go into them. I've got at least two motherboards in use at my home right now with only one working channel of memory. There are sticks just sitting around.
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#30the other side of the AI bubble are a huge amount of 2nd hand parts of all kinds going to come onto the market?
No, they'll be shipped off to developing nations to be dissolved for rare earths for the next boom cycle.
Memory chips don't contain rare earths, and e-waste recyclers pay a tiny fraction of what used-hardware buyers do.