lol I got my 128 at 560, just after prices started skurocketing. Even ddr4 is much higher than it should be. It's a forced, planned lie to... I dunno, I have multiple theories.
What theory do you have? All I can come up with is tariffs. I don't see why the government would want stop PC builders. HP and Dell of course have a reason but the how many people actually build their own shit?
Prevent home labs, stop people from self--hosting their own LLM. "force" people into their controlled ecosystem.
Already not a cheap endeavor, but increased prices will discourage the newbies from even trying.
Goy you can't build your own computer and put your own OS on it, that leads to piracy and the far right, you have to use locked down bootloaders in walled garden disposable devices that cost $500+