Everything will follow down in price. It's only a matter of when. For now we are fucked.

I was looking to get an 8tb SSD for my nas for a data base.

Let's just say I didn't end up making a purchase.

So cheap GPUs then? I could live with that.

DDR5 demand is part of it, not all the RAM shortage is HBM on the GPU. Those server boards have massive amounts of DDR5 too.

Hard to say how much of the demand induced price increases are based on anticipated chips for future purchase under multi-year contracts that may simply evaporate. Often prices are based on future predictions, not here-and-now supply ane demand.

Time to learn soldering!

This argument completely ignores that consumer electronics are being used for this stuff as well and while cheap server grade components might not be directly usable, it'll cascade down the entire industry freeing up a lot of the consumer components that were bought up.

I don't think that's how it works, I bet Nvidia is making a huge profit on that RAM.
When the prices collapse, we don't need RAM to be subsidized, and for now RAM is expensive because of Nvidia.
So I don't really follow your logic.

Funny how Sam Altman is complaining about RAM in ordinary PC's?

That's not the point. The problem is that these giant AI datacenter buyers have signed contracts promising to reserve all of the chip foundries' future production for however many years. The chips causing this "shortage" for the most part aren't even made yet.

The difference between profiteering and running a company safely.
In general the latter is better in the long run.

TSMC silicon and memory

That does not mean the RAM is by TSMC or made in Taiwan. What it means is that Nvidia preordered BOTH.

No not automatically it doesn't, in house could increase equally to the decline of Nvidia.
But in practice I think it does a lot, because in house will be built on way more efficient models. And Nvidia is at the center of a huge circular financial scheme mostly off the books, that is driving the AI bubble. If the AI bubble bursts, demand will most definitely plummet.

Google, Amazon and Huawei have their own in-house chips. Probably many more, because it's become way easier to make chips in-house. But of course they are still produced by TSMC or some other chip manufacturer.

AMD is not a chip manufacturer in the sense of having their own manufacturing, all manufacturing is outsourced same as Nvidia.
Intel, TSMC, Samsung are the main CPU manufacturers as in having actual factories. Then there are 4 companies manufacturing most of the RAM. Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and a Chinese company I think it's called CXMT.