There are some serious cabals controlling the prices. These price crunches aren't just due to AI, but greed from memory kit manufacturers waiting to see how high they can get the price to go just by letting the AI industry create scarcity.

The whole entire PC manufacturing industry needs to be decentralized, and this is what happens when countries don't set up their own competitive semiconductor industries but just allow themselves to be manipulated by a few centralized cabals. Good luck trying to prosecute any of these scumbags for anti-competitive practices nowadays.