I'm so mad about this, I need DDR5 for a new mini-PC I bought and prices have literally gone up by 2.5x..

128GB used to be 400$ in June, and now it's over $1,000 for the same 2x64GB set..

I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.

I just gave up and built an AM4 system with a 3090 because I had 128G of ddr4 udimms on hand the whole build was for less than just the memory would have cost for an AM5/ddr5 build.

Really wish that I could replace my old skylake-x system but even ddr4 rdimms for an older xeon are crazy now let alone ddr5. Unfortunately I need slots for 3xTitan V's for the 7.450 TFLOPS each of FP64. Even the 5090 only does 1.637 TFLOPS for FP64, so just hopping that old system keeps running.

Dram alternates between feast and famine; it's the nature of a business when the granularity of investment is so huge (you have a fab or you don't, and they cost billions -maybe trillions by now). So, it will swing back. Unfortunately it looks like maybe 3-5 years on average, from some analysis here: https://storagesearch.com/memory-boom-bust-cycles.html

(That's just me eyeballing it, feel free to do the math)

I just looked at the invoice for my current PC parts that I bought in April 2016: I paid 177 EUR (~203 USD) for 32GB (DDR4-2800).

It's kinda sad when you grow up in a period of rapid hardware development and now see 10 years going by with RAM $/GB prices staying roughly the same.

Ordered some servers 6 months ago ~12k USD per unit.

Same order, same bill of materials, 17.5K USD per unit today.

That is roughly a 5.5k increase for 768GB of DDR5 ECC memory and the 4 2tb nvme ssds.

Doubled in the last 4 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zc-FsUDCM

Upgraded by adding 64GB.. last Friday I sold the 32 GB I took out for what I paid for the 64 GB in July... insane

Damn I bought a whole computer with 128GB RAM & 16-core Ryzen CPU for £325 a few months ago.

> I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.

Years, or when the AI bubble pops, whatever comes first.

Similar situation with QLC flash and HDDs btw.

I'm still on DDR3 :)