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

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192 points redohmy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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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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1. 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)