Yes of course. We all know prices are up.

I commented because someone thought that $4K was the going price for 128GB of RAM, which is way too much even with the demand crunch.

Due to the high prices of DRAM and SSDs they now are the greatest fractions of the total price of a computer.

In January I was forced to upgrade an ancient Intel NUC, by replacing it with an Arrow Lake H based ASUS NUC. The complete system with 32 GB DRAM and 3 TB SSDs has cost EUR 1200, including VAT sales tax.

The distribution of the price was like this:

  Barebone mini-PC:   41%
  32 GB DDR5 SODIMMs: 26%
  2 TB PCIe 5.0 SSD:  24%
  1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD:   9%

Before 2026, for so small amounts of memory its cost would have been much less than the rest of the system.