There Is a RAM Shortage
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There Is a RAM Shortage
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#2It is truly unbelievable. A 2x32GB DDR5 kit I paid $150 for last July is listed for $885 today. Even DDR4 is getting hit, a 2x16GB kit I paid $105 for a year ago is $230 today.
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#3They’re a bit behind the curve. Prices are dropping.
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#5They’re a bit behind the curve. Prices are dropping.
The article is from February.
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#6Do these companies that are buying up all the supply actually need all that RAM right now? Or are they buying it all up in anticipation of future need? If the latter, honestly this might be a case where some kind of regulation really ought to step in.
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#7Do these companies that are buying up all the supply actually need all that RAM right now ? Or are they buying it all up in anticipation of future need? If the latter, honestly this might be a case where some kind of regulation really ought to step in.
Depends what you mean be 'need', but it is mostly going into powered on systems not being stockpiled.
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#8Do these companies that are buying up all the supply actually need all that RAM right now ? Or are they buying it all up in anticipation of future need? If the latter, honestly this might be a case where some kind of regulation really ought to step in.
To the extent that most of this is going into AI and people are having their ChatGPT and Gemini requests throttled because of lack of capacity, they need it now.
AI is dramatically more compute- and memory-hungry than past computing models, so if that's what people are using, it's going to require a large build-out of computing capacity to support the requests that are being made right now.
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#9Do these companies that are buying up all the supply actually need all that RAM right now ? Or are they buying it all up in anticipation of future need? If the latter, honestly this might be a case where some kind of regulation really ought to step in.
They're not directly buying up RAM sticks per se, but rather placing orders for say a GPU resulting in wafer capacity getting redirected
And since enterprise GPUs have enormous leads times right now yeah it is in anticipation of future needs
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#10February 21st OP?
Some more recent impacts/discussions:
RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161160
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296302
First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales