Samsung's 60% Dram Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Global Memory Tightening

Guess I'm sticking with my 5950x and 128GB of DDR4 for a while longer, should have upgraded my system earlier this year like I was thinking

This problem is so much worse when you look at server mobo configurations that basically jumped from 8 to 12 slots. Meaning you need 50% more sticks to saturate versus Epyc 7003/2. I was hoping to build a Genoa-X server for compute and ram cost just went bonkers (that’s on a nearly 2-yo system). I decided to shelve that idea.

Samsung’s memory price Surges by as much as 60% since September, according to a Reuters report published Friday [1]. The move marks one of the steepest short-term price increases in the DRAM market in years — and underscores how surging demand from AI data centers is straining global supply chains.

In trying to avoid the “paperclip problem” we created the “ram problem”