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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In the early 1980s dram prices went through the roof, that's why the Vic 20 used static ram. The price fell in the mid1980s when the Koreans began manufacturing dram.