Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

If we're going to see retailers price-gouging on DDR5, maybe people will be willing to buy slightly older gear with DDR4 (and corresponding motherboard and CPU).

Especially for systems for which the workloads are actually bound by GPU compute, network, or storage.

I just snagged an Asrock Rack mobo (X570), 5900x and 128gb ecc ddr4 for $680. Felt like a steal with how memory prices are going these days, ECC to boot.

I'm still on DDR4 but I hope this price gouging will be over by the time I need to finally upgrade :( I have a Ryzen so I did upgrade to the latest AM4 generation.

DDR4 will be just as expensive because it's made in the same fabs.

I'm thinking second-hand and new-old-stock, with less demand for it.

Nope, second hand is already evaporating.

2 months ago there were a load of second gen xeon scalable servers on offer. Now every one of them has had the ram stripped out and its just the chassis on offer.

Fabs are not wasting their time on DDR4 now.