RAM Prices Surge Amid AI Demand

Here’s what you might have missed in tech and finance. The RAM market is quietly breaking,

and it’s not because gamers are upgrading PCs. AI data centers are absorbing massive

amounts of memory, forcing manufacturers to prioritize high-margin server RAM over consumer products.

That’s shrinking supply for normal DDR5 memory and pushing prices sharply higher.

At the same time, chipmakers are refusing to expand production too fast after past crashes,

which keeps the market tight. The result is simple: RAM is no longer cheap,

hardware costs are rising, and this pressure could last for years. What used to be

a boring component is now a critical bottleneck in the AI era.