To start, remember the RAM-Random Access Memory, the stuff your computer’s CPU uses to store what it is thinking about short-term? Well, because of AI’s seemingly infinite hunger for this stuff, RAM manufactures cannot keep up with demand. The thing that really sucks about this for us PC builders is the fact that AI is willing to pay a lot more than we are for this RAM. Companies like Samsung, SKhynix, and micron cannot supply enough RAM to their distributors like T-force, Kingston, or Corsair. This caused all of the prices of RAM to significantly go up, I am talking 400% increase over the last couple of years. This made kits of 64gbs go from prices of $200 to $600-$800 in only months after the AI bubble appeared. That is not even the worse part, the same materials to make our DDR41 and DDR5 are used to make other components like GPUs and SSDs2. It has caused the prices of these other components to increase in price as well, not nearly as much, but still significant enough to effect the overall Price to Performance of an SSD. That is why people are currently calling this era “RAMargeddon”.
