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(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Framework, the popular vendor of highly-customizable, user-upgradeable laptops, is the latest PC outfit to be hit by the ongoing memory shortage. Owing to its custom nature, the company sells SO-DIMM modules for its laptops that users can buy either as upgrades to their existing devices or while kitting out a DIY model. Unfortunately, things have gotten so out of hand that even Framework has now had to remove almost every single kit of RAM available for purchase separately on its website.
The memory market is in a bad spot. We haven’t changed our memory pricing, but we did have to delist standalone memory from our Marketplace to head off scalpers and preserve inventory for people buying it with our DIY Edition laptops. https://t.co/4zDF9QvnkA November 25, 2025
A quick look at the " Memory & Storage" section of the website will show you there are 21 individual listings for both DDR4 and DDR5 RAM, out of which only two DDR4 models remain. Framework is still selling a standard 8 GB stick of DDR4-3200 memory, alongside a 16 GB kit of the same spec for very reasonable prices. Other options, including even refurbished SO-DIMMs, are now marked as "Coming Soon," pointing toward a depleting inventory that, once restocked, will come back with much higher prices.
Despite the chaos, Framework is still trying to make the best out of this situation, though, as the company is selling the remaining stock at old prices, and DDR5 is still readily available to kit out when buying one of their DIY Edition laptops. This tactic should ward off scalpers who're willing to sniff out every crevice of the internet to stock up on memory that they can resell at inflated prices.
Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/framework-stops-selling-standalone-ram-to-ward-off-scalpers-warns-it-will-have-to-increase-memory-pricing-soon-as-ai-crunch-bites#main
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