Companies want to pull all our computing into their cloud services. It’s an end for personal computers if they manage to make this reality. I suspect the price hikes for components are manufactured to make this happen.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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The price hikes are easily explained… companies get massive amounts of money from investors, they spend that money buying GPUs and RAM so they can promise AI. Prices for memory goes up on its own, it is just a „nice“ side effect.
“mainstream PC memory and storage costs rose by 40 percent to 70 percent, resulting in cost increases being passed through to customers.”
40 to 70 percent? Isn't it more like 300 to 400 percent?