I guess I’ll double down and not buy new hardware even harder!
Suppose you’re a RAM maker. You’re raking in fat profits from this maybe-a-bubble situation. Your market forecasts show there’s a risk the bubble might pop. Or that new Chinese sources of your commodity are about to become widely available in the West, cratering your beautiful margin. What do you do?
One thing you might do is: encourage the public to buy now, while prices are still high.
Certainly you don’t invest in more production capacity, if you suspect that demand will crater before your new production comes online.
How mich margin is enough?.Gamers nexus just did a video on Micron’s gross margins, and its absolutely disgusting. Its gone from mid 30% to 90% in some of their divisions in a few years.
It’s never enough.
Ah, the free market and the conundrum of infinite growth
What does “double-digit price increase” mean?
$10 is two digits.
I imagine it’s a percentage increase? But then again, it could be anything from 10% to 99%.Or maybe adding two more digits to the price?
I had the same thought, it’s such a terrible way of talking about it. I’m guessing it means one order of magnitude.
So when is the free market gonna correct this?
Where’s this free market you speak of? All I see is corruption and corporate welfare.
RAM isn’t a free market; it’s a cartel.
Turns out the invisible hand of the market isn’t so much a hand as a single outstretched middle finger.
Never, you know how this games goes.
Eric Andre as “The Free Market” shoots consumer RAM production; “Why would Samsung do this?”
When the AI bubble bursts, or the various electronics suppliers and their suppliers get more factories/capacity online in 2028
I mean, this is the correction
We know… Here in America everyday is worse than the one before.
The Worst Day of Your Life So Far…
my 10 year old ram need no die
Let as all sacrifice a rock and chant the sacred chant!
Dig up that old invoice or receipt if you can since even your ten year old RAM might have a lifetime warranty on it.
If they’ll even honor it. No, there are no legal requirements for anything in the US any more.
Good lord… I was just recovering from the shock from current prices…
I was thinking of selling my old DDR4 RAM but at this point, I think I’ll keep it as a backup in case my current dies for whatever reason between now and the next 10+ years.
Where is the best place to sell DDR4? I have 128GB mixed DIMM and SODIMM.
Right here dogg, hook it up! Honestly anywhere things are sold will be fine, it’s pretty much the most liquid commodity besides weed right now. For real though DM me if you’re willing to cut a fellow poster a deal. I’m super broke but almost have a free trash PC put together, 10th gen i7/rx580/case/mobo/power supply. For whatever reason people just aren’t throwing out old ram these days :p
Not a bad idea, just keep in mind that a lot of memory companies have lifetime warranties on their higher end modules too that you can try. I recently had success RMA’ing my 2.5 year old sticks that went bad but of course YMMV.
