Fucking piece of shit Sam Altman should be executed on a wooden plank and his corpse should be displayed on a public square for the next 100 years.
I was saving up for building a pc but at this point I'd rather just throw my money in a fire than buy RAM or SSD. Even Apple has better Ram pricing than these goons.
Basically, all RAM is manufactured by three companies. RAM pricing operates on a 4~5 year pricing cycle where high prices encourage a increase in production which in turn lowers prices and discourages production which raises prices and so on.
There hasn't been much investment to increase overall manufacturing capacity of RAM and the factories to do so aren't quick to spin up. RAM was already at low prices earlier this year which indicated a decrease in production. Then OpenAI announced they'd be buying 40% of the global RAM supply, a massive amount. This has led to retailers starting to jack up RAM prices. I panic bought a 2x16GB kit for $200 at the beginning of the week. That same SKU is now $400.
As a warning, this RAM shortage will affect EVERYTHING with RAM in it, GPUs, phones, etc.
did they actually put in orders or is this just sam altman pulling another trick to squeeze a little more air into the bubble?
Just another Sam Altman trick to make shit worse for the commoners.
The latter as far as I know. Retailers are raising prices on existing stock. I've seen a few SKUs go out of stock only to be reposted with a different, more expensive SKU.
Damn. Congrats, quick draw
Is it terrible to still be on DDR4 these days? A month or so ago I got 32gb(16/16) DDR4 for 60 bucks.
Edit: The ram I got is out of stock on newegg, even the DDR4 is around 100-150 or more for 32gb now
My pc that runs my mc server is still on ddr3 lmao
Can't wait for smart technology to become unaffordable to the masses and this shit backfiring on their faces in some years.