ByMartina Castellanos,
Contributor.
AI’s trillion-dollar appetite for memory has drained consumer supply and handed chipmakers more lucrative enterprise contracts, a shift that has sent RAM and SSD prices soaring and turned simple gaming and PC upgrades into far pricier undertakings, according to various reports.
More than $1.1 trillion for AI data centers’ infrastructure has taken a dominant share of memory and storage supply, which has tightened the consumer market and dramatically increased memory prices for RAM and SSD kits, per PCWorld.
As a result of this, PCWorld estimates prices for RAM, a computer’s short term memory, have climbed over 100% in the past few months.
