▲ 225 ▼ 2003-era DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% — AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 4 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 34 comments fedilink hide all child comments 🤯 1 TrendForce expects another 40% rise in Q3 as buyers downgrade specs to secure supply.
[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child) Ddr2 is still alive in 2026 permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mecen@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago "Of course, today’s PCs don’t use DDR2, so we’re likely to see the impact of these price increases landing in areas like embedded systems, networking equipment, industrial controllers, automotive electronics, and other long-lived devices that were designed around it and are too costly to requalify on newer memory generations like DDR4 and five." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago "Of course, today’s PCs don’t use DDR2, so we’re likely to see the impact of these price increases landing in areas like embedded systems, networking equipment, industrial controllers, automotive electronics, and other long-lived devices that were designed around it and are too costly to requalify on newer memory generations like DDR4 and five." permalink fedilink source parent