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

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160 points redohmy | 3 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.647s | source
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neilv ◴[21 Nov 25 21:36 UTC] No.46009274[source]▶
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.

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1. wmf ◴[21 Nov 25 22:00 UTC] No.46009483[source]▶
DDR4 will be just as expensive because it's made in the same fabs.
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2. neilv ◴[21 Nov 25 22:05 UTC] No.46009538[source]▶
I'm thinking second-hand and new-old-stock, with less demand for it.
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3. tempest_ ◴[21 Nov 25 22:14 UTC] No.46009618[source]▶
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.