i’m seeing some estimates stating ram prices are going to jump 400% by the end of june 2026. major price increases are inbound.
here is some of the information i’m seeing:
- Memory shortage deepens, extending boom for Korean chipmakers
- Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028
- SK Hynix CEO sees worst memory shortage in 2027, demand to outstrip supply beyond 2030
- SSD and memory price to remain high at least until 2029?
- Micron: Memory Crunch Outpaces 20% Supply Growth
- Price of SSDs in 2026: why it’s a panic (and when it will calm down)
- The Rising Cost of RAM & SSDs: What’s Happening, Why It’s Happening AGAIN and What Comes Next
- Riding the AI Supercycle: Navigating the 2026 Memory & Storage Market
- Electronic Pricing Pressures Will Last Beyond 2026
- Memory’s $200B Inflection
- Micron Is Up 900%. Here’s Why the AI Memory Trade May Still Have Room to Run
- Memory & HBM
- Prediction: Micron Could Be the Most Important AI Stock After Nvidia
- Memory Will Cost Cloud Giants More Than GPUs by 2027: NVIDIA Uses That to Justify 15% Server Hike
- Gartner Says Surging Memory Costs Will Reduce Global PC and Smartphone Shipments in 2026
prices may never come down again.
“post consumer computing”
Woof. I found a few…but local prices have them nearer $1K.
Good finding, you did.
I was looking at the Halo Strix…the difference between when I started looking and now is about $3K.
Tis to lol. I’ll stick with the tiny/mini/micros (usFF lenovos and HPs). They’re still pretty affordable.
The only thing I cared about was RAM amount cause I have some beefier things I wanted to run (multiple game servers that need 8-16gb ram each etc.) and that was the most affordable option.
Without storage, maybe thats the reason for the cheaper price, but luckily I had some 1tb NVMEs hoarded from the before times.
It has some linux problems, like I couldn’t make the NPU be usable, even though I used the ubuntu image that is supposed to support it, but those issues don’t matter for my usecase