DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
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DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
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Re: DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
#2Totally agree. Just like graphics card prices. Is it worth building a pc now?
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#4OTOH things which belong on microcontrollers are now being pushed back to microcontrollers for cost reasons, so there is a win to be found there.
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#5Holy crap, it is super expensive now. I should have brought an extra one in the past.
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#6it's probably time to call those old retired programmers to ask them how to reduce software memory footprint
or to teach that again
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#7DRAM pricing is killing the everything market.
We just had a vendor uplift our quote 50% per unit for some machines because of a mix of memory + supply chain issues.
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#8it's probably time to call those old retired programmers to ask them how to reduce software memory footprint or to teach that again
The art is not lost, just not funded. Feel free to fund the programmers for your own software projects.
Re: DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
#9“Killing” is strong phrasing.
Yes, a $250 mini PC I bought last year is now $350.
Is this pricing bad? Yeah, compared to what it was.
Is this the end of the world? Not really, and we’ve seen price spikes for all kinds of PC components in the past. It’s rarely permanent.
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#10DRAM pricing is killing the everything market. We just had a vendor uplift our quote 50% per unit for some machines because of a mix of memory + supply chain issues.
That’s strange, there aren’t wider market supply chain issues outside of DRAM. Maybe your vendor is just throwing excuses around.