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Dr3ams And as long as people keep buying them at those prices, then manufacturers (fleecers) will have no motivation to lower the prices. It's a GPU repeat. Reply
bmtphoenix Dr3ams said: And as long as people keep buying them at those prices, then manufacturers (fleecers) will have no motivation to lower the prices. It's a GPU repeat. Nah. People aren't buying at the kind of volume and pace to sustain these prices on that alone. The demands from AI data centers won't last all that long. Efficiency and experience will make buying so much RAM pointless, eventually. A combination of realizing what "AI" is and/or isn't, running out of big businesses that have the money and the need for their services, and old AI customers realizing that people are still better at a lot of the things they switched to AI, will cause an abrupt halt to current demand. If we ever build real AI, then that will replace a lot of jobs and the outcome will be different. What we're experiencing now is not that. This is just a bubble built on marketing. Reply
Dr3ams bmtphoenix said: Nah. People aren't buying at the kind of volume and pace to sustain these prices on that alone. The demands from AI data centers won't last all that long. Efficiency and experience will make buying so much RAM pointless, eventually. A combination of realizing what "AI" is and/or isn't, running out of big businesses that have the money and the need for their services, and old AI customers realizing that people are still better at a lot of the things they switched to AI, will cause an abrupt halt to current demand. Something similar was said about GPUs and Mining. But, years later the prices are no where near what they were before the Mining and AI rage. Reply
ezst036 Dr3ams said: Something similar was said about GPUs and Mining. But, years later the prices are no where near what they were before the Mining and AI rage. Here's the fun question: Were those low prices incorrect, and now things are actually where they should be? Same for RAM. Its easy to stop and say that things are a bubble and AI is doing this and AI is doing that, but a market correction may have needed to take place anyways to get prices away from those low-bubble prices. Bubbles do not just pop on the high end. Bubbles also pop on the low end. Just to state it the reverse way: Simply coming in and saying that the "old" low prices are "what is correct" is an assertion without a basis. I am not asserting either one, BTW, just leaving the question open in my thoughts. Reply
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/ram-prices-show-signs-of-levelling-out-albeit-at-inflated-levels-some-modules-stabilizing-in-price-increases-on-more-performant-kits-tapering-off#main
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