if you're waiting to buy a computer, do it soon. prices are going to skyrocket (again) in 2027 and 2028. especially ram. i've linked to some of my sources in the post.
i'm seeing some estimates stating ram prices are going to jump 400% by the end of june 2026. major price increases are inbound.
here is some of the information i'm seeing:
- Memory shortage deepens, extending boom for Korean chipmakers
- Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028
- SK Hynix CEO sees worst memory shortage in 2027, demand to outstrip supply beyond 2030
- SSD and memory price to remain high at least until 2029?
- Micron: Memory Crunch Outpaces 20% Supply Growth
- Price of SSDs in 2026: why it's a panic (and when it will calm down)
- The Rising Cost of RAM & SSDs: What’s Happening, Why It’s Happening AGAIN and What Comes Next
- Riding the AI Supercycle: Navigating the 2026 Memory & Storage Market
- Electronic Pricing Pressures Will Last Beyond 2026
- Memory's $200B Inflection
- Micron Is Up 900%. Here’s Why the AI Memory Trade May Still Have Room to Run
- Memory & HBM
- Prediction: Micron Could Be the Most Important AI Stock After Nvidia
- Memory Will Cost Cloud Giants More Than GPUs by 2027: NVIDIA Uses That to Justify 15% Server Hike
- Gartner Says Surging Memory Costs Will Reduce Global PC and Smartphone Shipments in 2026
prices may never come down again.
"post consumer computing"
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Thanks for updating the post and supplying links. My original statements stands though: I'll keep buying and using old hardware. Permacomputing will rise!
Nice try, RAM manufacturer.
No thanks, I'll buy old stuff, until we are done with this bullshit.
If the new stuff gets more expensive, the old stuff will too
DDR3 ftw 💪 no shit, my newest piece of equipment in my homelab (besides the switch) is a ThinkPad T540p (i5 4200M)
No source? Some experts are saying an AI crash will happen sooner rather than later...
Well, when the bubble will -pop- explode, the whole economy is going down - yours too.
You might still want to buy... Sooner rather than later...
For multiple years it's been "any minute now!"
Every real estate agent, every mortgage broker, could see the fraud in the housing market long by 2003, but either didn't recognize it as fraud at the time, or didn't care. They were all making money hand over fist to prop it up.
Zero down payment, 110% LTV mortgages, seller-paid closing costs, buyer is receiving a $3000 check at closing? ARM set to triple their rate in a year? Completely absurd, but the agent is only getting paid if the deal closes. The mortgage broker is only getting paid if the deal closes. The lender is only getting paid if the deal closes. The seller is only getting paid if the deal closes. Everyone needed this deal to close, so they did what it took to close the deal.
Lenders were offering "Continuing Education" credits that RE agents needed for their licenses. That "continuing education" consisted of seminars coaching agents to encourage these deals.
By 2003, buyers were underwater with their mortgages as soon as they signed them. Yet it took 5 more years for the bubble to actually burst.
The circular financing ponzi scheme behind AI will survive until someone can't service debt. What happens then is either the collapse of the whole scheme, or the government declaring them "too big to fail" and allowing them to reorganize into a single corporate entity.
So exactly like an AGI emerging after just one more update.
I enjoyed how someone put it:
“Just one more round of funding, bro.”
It will at some point. The amount the need to charge to make a profit means most people won't use it
There is so much AI hype and so much anti-AI hype, that I doubt it really will.
For the last 4 years, we have perpetually been 90 days from both the AI market crashing and AI stealing all our jobs at the same time.
My thought is the AI market won't crash because especially in data engineering and devops there is an inherent worth. I think there will be a potential downturn in the volume of cash flowing into perhaps after the big players like OpenAI and Anthropic go to IPO, but the market itself will remain stable. Similar to how the housing bubble crash didn't actually wipe out the housing market (with or without the US govt saving the big players - it still would have survived on its own even if those players did not).
Did you see Anthropic’s IPO filing? The company is upside down and there’s so much commingling between 3 or 4 companies that when one goes the rest will topple like dominoes.
What won’t crash are the billionaires at the top. See, they’re going to cash out with piles of money and leave the index fund investors (e.g. the every day person) holding the bag.
Source? Trust me bro?
From the infornation he has seen. Did you not read his post?
Oh sorry, must have missed that part.
If enough people trusted him then it would become true, lmao
Supply and Demand
Yeah, they probably bought 2 RAM sticks and think they can now manipulate markets with a Lemmy post and turn it into a great investment.
This kind of posts from random user, especially with those names are a clear sign of cracks in the bubble...
By the end of June 2026? Old news.
I mean, I just bought two used systems for under $500 CAD combined, both capable of being used as servers, if I wanted to. I'm more worried about HDD prices, nevermind flash storage. I have no idea when I will be able to afford a 10+ TB HDD in the next couple years, at least.
I got myself a whole new ARM mini pc for 600$ with soldered 64GB of ddr5 RAM. I think of it like a very beefy rpi5 and use it as my homelab server. They were not very popular and selling leftover stock for the same pre-bubble price.
You mean they are reaching geo-synchronous orbit after already skyrocketing this year?