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2003-era DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% — AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production (www.tomshardware.com)
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TrendForce expects another 40% rise in Q3 as buyers downgrade specs to secure supply.

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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree. i dont think there is a shortage. the ram companies are just using the buying spree to jack up prices and make investors happy. i didnt think about price caps till you mentioned it but ram really is essential to people's livelyhood. i am soap boxing this moving forward :)

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The AI companies are also buying tons of it and just locking it away. They can't use it, they are keeping competitors from using it. If competition with you will cost me $20 billion in revenue, but buying $15 billion worth of RAM stops you from being able to compete, buying the RAM just to destroy it is a no brainer.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nobody is buying to destroy. They're all starved for compute right now. Hence the dynamic pricing to stop people using at peak times.

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Not physically destroy, you're right, but they are buying to shelve until obsolescence. Which is as good as destroyed.

They are also starved for compute. Because they cannot get data centers physically built-out fast enough.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Yes, I'm sure they can afford to buy tens of billions in servers just to store until obsolescence while they're trying hard to even become profitable lol

OpenAI bought up memory wafers, not ready-made systems from nvidia. That's something they may actually be hoarding to create a bottleneck.