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This is a positive sign that the AI bubble is bursting. I think the price drop in RAM is showing up in China first because most of the RAM is manufactured and packaged in that region.
New developments are reducing AI demand for ram by 90%
That’s on top of investment money drying up and half of all new data center construction being cancelled.
Fuck the ones that hoarded.
They made the price hikes worse, and they would have dragged this out if it weren’t fueled by a temporary surge of investment, but now they’re all getting burned and they will help the prices crash down to below normal for a while.
Man I hope something good happens. My budgets are absolutely fucked due to new hardware purchases.
It will. The return to sane prices is starting sooner than I thought it would. There are still new data centers being built right now. I thought they would still be buying massive amounts of hardware and pushing up prices for at least the next 6 months.
