Computer hardware - Incoming Memory (RAM) crisis

[carlosy]

Open AI is buying RAM wherever they can, literally. Prices of consumer RAM is already skyrocketing. Highend gaming kits see an increase of over 600%. A G.Skill kit that I bought almost a year ago for sub $100 is now over $600. On average, prices are currently at 200 - 300%. And if you think this is just a problem for nerds, no. RAM is used everywhere, cars, phones, consoles. etc.

Open AI is betting that in a few years over 40% of the worlds population is going to use their product. They are going all in, buying everything they can get.

After nearly 30 years, Micron is shutting down Crucial and leaving the consumer RAM market​

https://www.techspot.com/news/110485-after-nearly-30-years-micron-shutting-down-crucial.html

And in addition there is this:

This is either going to crash massively or we might very well end up not owning our hardware anymore. They want you to rent it in their cloud systems.

 

[8enotto]

I picked up a few SD cards and USB drives in the last year and am far from using them to full.
I should be able to ride out the price spike a few more years.

 

[Wudang]

Got a 3.5" floppy drive?

 

[novaphile]

I have a couple in storage I think.

Along with my tape drive.

And my zip drive.

Oh yeah, and I think a couple of five and a quarter inch drives.

I really should open those boxes and haul much of that stuff to the recycler.

I still have a copy of a friends PhD on tapes in my study.

 

[junkshop]

I picked up a few SD cards and USB drives in the last year and am far from using them to full.
I should be able to ride out the price spike a few more years.

The problem is with memory, not storage.

 

[Wudang]

The problem is with memory, not storage.

I was looking at an app store either on my Mac or Linux box today and one app I was looking at said "ensure you have enough memory on your target drive". I noped like a pro noper offered a noping performance bonus.

 

[junkshop]

I was looking at an app store either on my Mac or Linux box today and one app I was looking at said "ensure you have enough memory on your target drive". I noped like a pro noper offered a noping performance bonus.

Dude, you noped like a true l33t noper, frfr.

Like, all the 5trnfreg, squishy? 5.3.6? Trapesoid!

 

[Mongrel]

The problem is with memory, not storage.

It's affecting both, SSD storage is just non-volatile memory which is made by the same three (soon to be two) companies

 

[Jack by the hedge]

I misunderstood the story at first (why would Crucial stop making memory when prices are through the roof?) But no, Micron is going to stop selling memory to consumers under the Crucial brand name, because AI bubble corporations are frantically buying all the memory as fast as anyone can make it.

It's as if there were only 3 shoe manufacturers in the world, but one is about to stop making shoes, because they suddenly have an unlimited and much more lucrative market making only army boots.

<pause> This is fine.

 

[junkshop]

It's affecting both, SSD storage is just non-volatile memory which is made by the same three (soon to be two) companies

I stand corrected

 

[commandlinegamer]

Can't wait to cash in with my half-dozen sticks of never-used DDR3.

Do I hear £1,000?

 

[Wudang]

I was looking at RAM . DDR3 up to 8GB chips is pricey but okay. Above that it gets silly.

 

[8enotto]

I scrapped a bag of older computer memory cards for gold recovery saving only one for my old laptop restoration.
Sadly now none of that would be useful in newer computers. The biggest was 1 giga.