Unless you've been living on another planet, orbiting a star light years away, you won't have missed the fact that memory kits are painfully expensive right now. One of the world's biggest manufacturers of PCs has warned that the RAMpocalypse will continue for years, but so far, makers of DRAM kits have taken a somewhat binary approach in their responses to the crisis: do nothing or go extreme.
As reported by Computerbase, a forecast on the supply and prices of DRAM was presented by Lenovo at a high-performance computing event last week. It essentially told us something that we're already acutely aware of: Memory prices will remain extremely high for many years to come and may never drop back down to 2024 levels.
There's nothing that you and I can do about this, of course, but you'd perhaps expect the top manufacturers of memory kits to do something. We don't really need high-speed, low-latency sets of DRAM in our gaming PCs to enjoy decent frame rates, and anyone with an AMD Ryzen X3D chip can get away with surprisingly slow memor...
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