DDR5 prices are skyrocketing thanks to AI memory greed

Server-class DDR5 RDIMM prices increase more sharply, while PC-focused SODIMM prices follow a gentler upward slope, ...

As AI Eats Up The World’s Chips, Memory Prices Take The Hit

At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...
TweakTown

256GB of RAM costs $5700 in China, you'd need only 100 modules to buy a small house in Shanghai

China's spot market price for 256GB DDR5 memory has burst over $5700 (!!!), where just 100 modules of 256GB DDR5 would buy a ...
Seeking Alpha

Nvidia's move to smartphone-style memory could double server-memory prices by next year-end: report

Nvidia's (NVDA) plan to use smartphone-style memory chips in its AI servers could cause server-memory prices to double by late 2026, Reuters reported, citing a report by Counterpoint Research. In the ...
How-To Geek on MSN

RAM is $400 and GPUs are $3,700: The PC market has officially crashed

RAM prices have been wild for months now, with 32GB of DDR5 RAM skyrocketing from around $150-$170 up to $350-$400 or more.
VnExpress International

Computer memory DRAM prices surge faster than gold

Driven by the AI boom, global computer memory prices have entered a record growth cycle, with DRAM increases outpacing gold ...
Ars Technica

Server grade RAM and consumer Motherboards compatibility

I'm preparing to build a home "server" and I wanted to know if this kind of RAM would work on consumer motherboards. Motheboards that I have in mind are AM3/AM3+ socket, 880G chipset/990FX chipset and ...
Network World

What’s causing the memory shortage?

The memory industry faced shortage issues in the past but those were partially due to the changing of memory format. When the ...