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DRAM prices skyrocket 171% year-over-year, outpacing the rate of gold price increases — AI demand drives massive price hikes as shortage takes hold (www.tomshardware.com)
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DRAM contract prices surged 171.8% year-over-year as of the third quarter of 2025. The increase now exceeds the rate at which gold prices have climbed. ADATA chairman Chen Libai stated that the fourth quarter of 2025 will mark the beginning of a major DRAM bull market. He expects severe shortages to materialize in 2026.

Memory manufacturers have shifted production priorities toward datacenter-focused memory types like RDIMM and HBM. Consumer DDR5 production has declined as a result. A Corsair Vengeance RGB dual-channel DDR5 kit that sold for $91 dollars in July now costs a $183 dollars on Newegg. The pricing trend extends to NAND flash and hard drives. Analysts project the increases will persist for at least four years, matching the duration of supply contracts that some companies have signed with Samsung and SK Hynix.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The pricing trend extends to NAND flash and hard drives.

Looks like we're going to be running out of CPUs too.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108473/intels-chip-supply-to-be-depleted-in-early-2026-pc-and-server-cpu-demand-beyond-expectation/index.html

Intel's chip supply to 'be depleted' in early 2026: PC and server CPU demand beyond expectation

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There goes my plan for building a new AM5/Zen 6 based desktop next year.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I had to delay mine by about 2 years waiting for GPUs to come down. Ended up building the system without one until I got something slightly more reasonable (kept 2015 card for a while since that was still newer than the rest of the system core [2012-ish]). It does suck knowing that nothing of value was the reason (crypto at the time).

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should we pre-buy for the next 5 years? I've been delaying some upgrades but that seems like an exceedingly bad idea.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't feel qualified to give informed advice on that, sorry.