Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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2. Bought 64GB's for a new PC build back in early Oct, paid 149 for it on sale. It's 779 right now.

I took 2 sticks out barely used and sold 32GB on a friend's FB page for 250. I had 250 set back for a new tv (my 15 year old one broke). Was able to afford a nice a 4K I can double as a racing monitor lol. Many of us saw this coming like the GPU shenanigans (they still haven't recovered) that started 5 years ago but not this bad. Some of the forums I'm on people grouped together and bought 100 or 200 sticks of RAM then resold them 2-3 months later at up to a 500% increase. Stuff was better than crypto. Every stick of RAM scheduled for production through 2027 is already sold. These Datacenter hogs are screwing everything up because damn near everything uses DDR 4,5 and 6 style RAM now. There were old DDR 4 machines that were warehoused to be destroyed that companies have bought on the wholesale market and are bringing online because facilities are in place and it can be done quickly. People don't realize that bringing a new chip of just about any kinds, but especially CPU, GPU and RAM production facilities online from scratch takes 5 to 7 years. There's really only 2 major producers of RAM right now capable of this crazy demand. Its messed up.