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DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% as AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/technology@piefed.social

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and expect another 40% rise later this year.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh shit, my random pile of legacy memory might be worth something? Still got some DDR and RDRAM laying around too.

[–] morto@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our time to shine

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I knew this day would come!

[–] morto@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Keep your ide and rca cables in good shape, because one day they will shine as well!

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I'm fairly certain I have a full tray of dd3 gathering dust somewhere

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ddr2 is still being made?!

[–] Janx@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

POS (Point Of Sale) equipment needs memory. All the equipment I work on uses DDR2 because it is the cheapest. For now...

[–] Bot@sub.community 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What in the actual hell is this? I thought that Google thing had cooled down the RAM spike

[–] RelativeArea1@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the thing with ram and AI is that these things are turned into ramdrives, even with ddr2 speeds, ramdrives could still be somewhat on par with modern ssd. Now that theres some AI models that could run on drives, the "economics" of hardware in relation to AI will remain painful for common folks who likes computers. fuck this shit tbh.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Which google thing? All RAM production still goes to AI datacenters, and is planned to do so for at least the next 3 years (but probably forever).

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

What the actual fuck. I would've expected most of that to be scrapped as e-waste by now.