Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months • Hacker News Board

Re: Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

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Post by Ninjinka » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

platevoltage wrote: post #130

Ninjinka wrote: post #38

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Increased demand for computer components for purposes other than gaming constitutes "AI bros murdering your lifelong hobby"? PC gaming is not "murdered", it's doing better than ever. In 2015 there were 3,000 games released to Steam, last year there were 18,000. In 2015 Steam's peak concurrent user count was 8.6 million. This year it's 41 million. The inflation-adjusted price per gigabyte of RAM has dropped from $3/GB…

> In 2015 there were 3,000 games released to Steam, last year there were 18,000. In 2015 Steam's peak concurrent user count was 8.6 million. This year it's 41 million. This is like saying "Spotify's subscriber count grew by 800% over the last 10 years. Music is doing better than ever!"

If the complaint was about access to music, then yes, that would valid. Which seemed to be the complaint implied regarding RAM as it related to PC gaming.

Re: Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

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Post by ASalazarMX » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC

bigbuppo wrote: post #419

ASalazarMX wrote: post #393

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It's more likely that overcapacity is put to work in a plan B, like cheap cloud virtual desktops. Why spend effort on spying and tracking users when their whole desktop computer is in your data center?

When's the last time you bought something at Sears?

I love the randomness of this question, at least in my context.

Las time I bought something at Sears was the spring of 2008; a new set of tires for my car, and they were bad so I never went back. Also, there aren't a lot of Sears in Mexico.

Re: Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

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Post by stevefan1999 » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 8:45 AM UTC

bigbuppo wrote: post #361

khannn wrote: post #356

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I sincerely hope that OpenAI goes down in flames with those DRAM contracts are going to the highest bidder then so probably Google or whatever AI competitor. Honestly having problems remembering the other AI companies without googling it. I recall MS, Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Anthropic.

When OpenAI fails, all the AI projects everywhere else will also be killed. Such is the nature of bubbles. With any luck the farm land where the datacenters were built will be sold back to the farmers for half off and they get a free barn out of the deal.

A server farm, eh?