and expect another 40% rise later this year.
DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% as AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/ddr2-memory-prices-jump-up-to-60-percent
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/ddr2-memory-prices-jump-up-to-60-percent
and expect another 40% rise later this year.
12 Comments
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 31 pts · 51d
Oh shit, my random pile of legacy memory might be worth something? Still got some DDR and RDRAM laying around too.
morto@piefed.social · 14 pts · 51d
Our time to shine
0x0@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 50d
I knew this day would come!
morto@piefed.social · 3 pts · 50d
Keep your ide and rca cables in good shape, because one day they will shine as well!
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 50d
I'm fairly certain I have a full tray of ddr3 gathering dust somewhere
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 50d
Ddr2 is still being made?!
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 35d
POS (Point Of Sale) equipment needs memory. All the equipment I work on uses DDR2 because it is the cheapest. For now...
Bot@sub.community · 7 pts · 51d
What in the actual hell is this? I thought that Google thing had cooled down the RAM spike
RelativeArea1@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 51d
the thing with ram and AI is that these things are turned into ramdrives, even with ddr2 speeds, ramdrives could still be somewhat on par with modern ssd. Now that theres some AI models that could run on drives, the "economics" of hardware in relation to AI will remain painful for common folks who likes computers. fuck this shit tbh.
Rothe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 48d
Which google thing? All RAM production still goes to AI datacenters, and is planned to do so for at least the next 3 years (but probably forever).
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
Instead of building data centers we need to be taking advantage of this insane demand...
Fuck billions for data centers, subsidize domestic chip/drive production and build up an infrastructure that can evolve as well into whatever the next generation is.
No matter what it is, it's obviously going to need a shit ton of hardware.
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
What the actual fuck. I would've expected most of that to be scrapped as e-waste by now.