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Pumping the bubble now, pay later (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43005954

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[–] 18 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I wonder what ram prices will look like shortly after the bubble pops.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If RAM will even be AVAILABLE to buy, what with their attempts to replace all personal computers with terminals slaved to pay as you go cloud computing "services" 😮‍💨😬

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    I'm not sure how much you follow the history of IT, but this has happened at least 3 times in history, and it has always swung back to local processing. What has always been the force that brought local computing back is that compute power gets cheap. RAM and GPU costs are pushing the distributed (cloud) model right now.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Probably still astronomical, because the RAM being produced is specifically designed for use in large data-centers, not PCs.

    This is a classic guns/butter problem. "We're using all our industrial resources to produce guns" doesn't mean the price of butter drops when the gun market falls through.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Server RAM is not that much different.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I was wondering about that. I mean the sticks are different (consumer preferring faster ram, enterprise preferring an extra chip for ECC). But at the root it's all dram that should be the same underlying silicon by and large.

    But, I won't say for certain because I've never really looked into ram production in that level of detail.

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