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      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Rich, meh. But if you sell em before the bubble bursts, you’ll make some profit at least.

      • FrederikNJS@sopuli.xyz
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        55 minutes ago

        Flipping/selling it will not feed the data centres. Consumer RAM sticks are entirely different than the RAM sticks used in data centres.

        In data centres they use ECC memory, which is quite uncommon in consumer computers. The chips on the RAM stick is essentially the same but once the chips are soldered to the memory stick, it’s destiny is locked in.

        The price increases are entirely due to lower supply, because the AI data centres are buying up the production capacity for data centre grade RAM directly from the manufacturers, causing them to manufacture way fewer consumer grade RAM sticks.