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

    (www.buysellram.com)
    160 points redohmy | 11 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source | bottom
    1. sbarre ◴[21 Nov 25 21:40 UTC] No.46009300[source]▶
    I'm so mad about this, I need DDR5 for a new mini-PC I bought and prices have literally gone up by 2.5x..

    128GB used to be 400$ in June, and now it's over $1,000 for the same 2x64GB set..

    I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.

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    2. IshKebab ◴[21 Nov 25 22:03 UTC] No.46009512[source]▶
    Damn I bought a whole computer with 128GB RAM & 16-core Ryzen CPU for £325 a few months ago.
    3. tempest_ ◴[21 Nov 25 22:11 UTC] No.46009599[source]▶
    Ordered some servers 6 months ago ~12k USD per unit.

    Same order, same bill of materials, 17.5K USD per unit today.

    That is roughly a 5.5k increase for 768GB of DDR5 ECC memory and the 4 2tb nvme ssds.

    4. loeg ◴[21 Nov 25 22:16 UTC] No.46009653[source]▶
    > I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.

    Years, or when the AI bubble pops, whatever comes first.

    Similar situation with QLC flash and HDDs btw.

    5. phoboslab ◴[21 Nov 25 22:18 UTC] No.46009680[source]▶
    I just looked at the invoice for my current PC parts that I bought in April 2016: I paid 177 EUR (~203 USD) for 32GB (DDR4-2800).

    It's kinda sad when you grow up in a period of rapid hardware development and now see 10 years going by with RAM $/GB prices staying roughly the same.

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    6. Terr_ ◴[21 Nov 25 23:11 UTC] No.46010177[source]▶
    Aside, $203 USD back then would be about $276 USD after inflation. Not a primary effect, but contributory.
    7. 2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[21 Nov 25 23:13 UTC] No.46010202[source]▶
    I'm still on DDR3 :)
    8. minkeymaniac ◴[21 Nov 25 23:20 UTC] No.46010259[source]▶
    Doubled in the last 4 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zc-FsUDCM

    Upgraded by adding 64GB.. last Friday I sold the 32 GB I took out for what I paid for the 64 GB in July... insane

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    9. incompatible ◴[21 Nov 25 23:24 UTC] No.46010289[source]▶
    Time to start scouring used-PC sales to reclaim the RAM and sell it for a profit?
    10. ajb ◴[22 Nov 25 02:07 UTC] No.46011404[source]▶
    Dram alternates between feast and famine; it's the nature of a business when the granularity of investment is so huge (you have a fab or you don't, and they cost billions -maybe trillions by now). So, it will swing back. Unfortunately it looks like maybe 3-5 years on average, from some analysis here: https://storagesearch.com/memory-boom-bust-cycles.html

    (That's just me eyeballing it, feel free to do the math)

    11. nyrikki ◴[22 Nov 25 02:23 UTC] No.46011491[source]▶
    I just gave up and built an AM4 system with a 3090 because I had 128G of ddr4 udimms on hand the whole build was for less than just the memory would have cost for an AM5/ddr5 build.

    Really wish that I could replace my old skylake-x system but even ddr4 rdimms for an older xeon are crazy now let alone ddr5. Unfortunately I need slots for 3xTitan V's for the 7.450 TFLOPS each of FP64. Even the 5090 only does 1.637 TFLOPS for FP64, so just hopping that old system keeps running.