Memory Price Inflation Crisis: RAM Costs Skyrocket Across Tech Industry
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Summary
The article discusses a severe memory price inflation crisis affecting the tech industry, with RAM prices skyrocketing across the board. The author provides personal examples of DDR5 memory kits increasing from $209 to $650, and highlights broader industry impacts including Raspberry Pi price increases, Micron discontinuing the Crucial brand, Samsung struggling to source RAM for its own smartphones, and small vendors facing price increases of 200-300% or more. The piece examines the causes and consequences of this memory shortage affecting both consumers and manufacturers.
Key quotes
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Micron's killing the Crucial brand of RAM and storage devices completely, meaning there's gonna be one fewer consumer memory manufacturer.
Samsung can't even buy RAM from themselves to build their own Smartphones, and small vendors like Libre Computer and Mono are seeing RAM prices double, triple, or even worse.
Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait.
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