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It can still get worse: Double-digit price increase expected for RAM in the New Year
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PattyMcB lemmy.world PattyMcB@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-12
#52 · Quote Reply
aksdb wrote:
That depends. If it turns into the other direction that they have much less demand than they produce, they have to reduce prices until enough people buy again so "it keeps flowing".

Took Econ 100 did ya?
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nforminvasion lemmy.world nforminvasion@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-11
#53 · Quote Reply
Metris wrote:
Meanwhile, Amazon is just putting GPUs into warehouses so their competitors don't get them. WTF.

Yeah this is about more than llms. They're done, or want to be done, doing commerce with the plebs, the bottom 90%. Everything is for the top 10% (already make up 50+% of purchases and spending power, that stat is from 2024 so more now) and B2B.

We get the scraps of the scraps.
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TahVann lemmy.ca TahVann@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-10-01
#54 · Quote Reply
boonhet wrote:
That's what they want you to do, yes. Because margins right now are massive. They could be even bigger next year or they could drop. If you buy now, they're guaranteed a fat stack of cash.

or am i being manipulated into this opinion so that I buy at the peak.
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Damage feddit.it Damage@feddit.it
Joined: 2023-06-12
#55 · Quote Reply
Jerkface (any/all) wrote:
There still is not a path for data center components to be used in your gaming rig. They are not compatible and you can't really adapt something like RAM I would wager. You'd have to tear off the chips and make new boards.

If a crash dumps hardware on the market, I bet someone will find a way to make use of it.
But I don't think it will devalue, local models work and are useful, so if most datacenters closed tomorrow, I bet they'd be able to sell that hardware at decent prices to all sorts of companies.
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danielfm123 lemmy.zip danielfm123@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-12
#56 · Quote Reply

Ram companies stock prices is falling down.
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phineas1134 reddthat.com phineas1134@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-07-22
#57 · Quote Reply

So, the 32gb DDR 5600 I have sitting in this drawer next to me is currently my best investment?
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Kyrias lemmy.ca Kyrias@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-08-25
#58 · Quote Reply
phineas1134 wrote:
So, the 32gb DDR 5600 I have sitting in this drawer next to me is currently my best investment?

Unrelated question but what's your address and when are you usually not at home?
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Kyrias lemmy.ca Kyrias@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-08-25
#59 · Quote Reply
melsaskca wrote:
Well, when hockey equipment got too expensive I set my sights on soccer. When RAM gets too expensive I'll reset my sights again.

So it goes.

Honestly I haven't been super interested in a demanding game on a while anyway and my 32GB of DDR4 still works.
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Bilb! lemmy.ml bilb@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-12-23
#60 · Quote Reply
Damage wrote:
If a crash dumps hardware on the market, I bet someone will find a way to make use of it. But I don't think it will devalue, local models work and are useful, so if most datacenters closed tomorrow, I bet they'd be able to sell that hardware at decent prices to all sorts of companies.

I think if that happens, much stock will be intentionally destroyed before anything like that can happen.
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P1nkman lemmy.world P1nkman@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-28
#61 · Quote Reply
Kyrias wrote:
Unrelated question but what's your address and when are you usually not at home?

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500.

Check my schedule here: https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/calendar/
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yxc999 lemmy.ml yxc999@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-02
#62 · Quote Reply

I didn't think the 32GB DDR5 7200MHz kit that I got off an eBay auction for 72€ would be a flex a year later
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altphoto lemmy.today altphoto@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-04-14
#63 · Quote Reply

Cheap ram for you, just not for you for you. Like bullets...bullets for you, just not for you for you.
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absGeekNZ lemmy.nz absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-29
#64 · Quote Reply

Double digit...so like $10 right, its only going up by $10.
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spankysalmon fedinsfw.app spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app
Joined: 2026-02-28
#65 · Quote Reply
prime_number_314159 wrote:
"Lifetime" warranties are for the lifetime of the product (however they define that), not for the lifetime of the owner. There are court cases where a "lifetime" of less than 5 years has been upheld. It's one of the most clever doublespeak things most consumers remain unaware of, so they keep doing it.

Bingo. and my tolerance of sheep grows ever more thin as the days tick by.
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MousePotatoDoesStuff piefed.social MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-04-22
#66 · Quote Reply
Agent641 wrote:
That's the way they like it. Building more capacity costs shitloads of money, and reduces the price of your product. ASML, TMSC are a racket. If a major player like the US govt decided they wanted an ASML machine and didn't want to wait, ASML would find a way to make more in parallel. It would cost billions more, but that just makes it expensive, not impossible. With the right incentive, anythi...

We need a subsidised European* alternative to break the duopoly.

*doesn't have to be, but as an EU citizen I'd prefer if it was :P
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Jerkface (any/all) lemmy.ca jerkface@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-06
#67 · Quote Reply
Bilb! wrote:
I think if that happens, much stock will be intentionally destroyed before anything like that can happen.

What motivation do people in the DC and AI sector have to fuck with consumer prices? It's not like NVidia still owns that silicon or something.
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