RAM spot prices are down by 5%, though they did spike by well over 2000% this past year

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It's rough out there for RAM prices. It'll be a long time before memory prices become properly sensible again, but apparently spot prices have recently dropped. I'd like to take the wins where I can, but I'm not sure the time for celebration is anywhere near.

To briefly recap, the AI industry's bottomless appetite for both system storage and memory has created a supply crisis, which in turn has led to some truly ridiculous RAM prices. DigiTimes says that spot prices for 16 Gb DDR4 modules soared by 2,200% over the last year, but now they're finally starting to drop, though only by about 5%.

It feels like especially small potatoes when, in March 2025, DDR4 16Gb was priced around $3.20, but it's now trading at about $74.10 today, even with the recent dip in price. It's not the best news, but it does break the spot market's unbroken, months-long trend of growth.<...

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