WATCH OUT FOR RAM PRICES!

cheaterslick · Jun 4, 2026

gunrunnerjohn said:
I remember the nickel candy bar, but it was a very long time ago, I was in my 20's when the price went up to a dime.

Well I remember the spoke wheel. I also remember walking 2 miles to school every morning in my bare feet. :wink:

nuck..nuck...nuck...

Scannerman · Jun 4, 2026

cheaterslick said:
Well I remember the spoke wheel. I also remember walking 2 miles to school every morning in my bare feet.

nuck..nuck...nuck...

up hill. both ways!

AK6DN · Jun 8, 2026

Scannerman said:
Meanwhile, the demand for RAM @ the corporate level increases:

NVIDIA CEO Has Good News for Micron and SanDisk Investors: “The Memory Shortage to Continue for Several Years”

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, speaking from South Korea tonight after Friday’s brutal chip sell-off, told investors that “AI-related stocks are very cheap right now.” More importantly for memory bulls, he framed the AI supply crunch as a multi-year condition, an unmistakably positive...

finance.yahoo.com

XxXxX · Jun 8, 2026

AK6DN said:
NVIDIA CEO Has Good News for Micron and SanDisk Investors: “The Memory Shortage to Continue for Several Years”

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, speaking from South Korea tonight after Friday’s brutal chip sell-off, told investors that “AI-related stocks are very cheap right now.” More importantly for memory bulls, he framed the AI supply crunch as a multi-year condition, an unmistakably positive...

finance.yahoo.com

to be perfectly honest i hope AI fails and takes several of these corporations with it
no corporation is ever to big to go bust.

best of luck Steve ..

Scannerman · Jun 8, 2026

XxXxX said:
to be perfectly honest i hope AI fails and takes several of these corporations with it
no corporation is ever to big to go bust.

I couldn't agree more. Distribution of wealth is a real thing. So what happens when both the distribution and the production is regulated, controlled, and operated by AI? When artists can't make a dime because AI can do it better and exponentially cheaper, when manufacturing only requires a small fraction of the staff they once required, when authors can no longer make a living writing books, or require AI to do it for them, when students merely let the machine complete their assignments while teachers simply let AI do the marking of the assignments... Where is all the revenue going to come from? Are the machines going to pay the machines?? Will money simply be eliminated? Will a universal living allowance even be enough? Nobody can give what they ain't got so it would stand to reason that a ULA would be inevitable. Will this mark the end of capitalism? Frankly, I think the whole thing stinks.

I likely won't live long enough to see where this goes, but the direction it is taking brings it to an apocalyptic conclusion.

fgr1990 · Jun 8, 2026

PCUser said:
@stormy13
Here's an example idea / scenario . . .

If you're an Amazon Prime member, why not login to Amazon.co.uk and buy
Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36, Overclocking Gaming, Intel XMP 3.0 / AMD EXPO, Computer Memory (PC), Black - CP2K16G60C36U5B

Amazon.co.uk
166.66 Pound sterling equals
$218.68 United States Dollar

instead of paying $334
Crucial Pro 32GB DDR5 RAM Kit (2x16GB),CL36 6000MHz, Overclocking Desktop Gaming Memory, Intel XMP 3.0 & AMD Expo Compatible, Black - CP2K16G60C36U5B

Amazon.com

Because Amazon is a U.S. company, maybe you'd avoid the tariffs and save some $$$?

Hey!

Just looked at some of the first offers provided in this thread - the cheap one. ~Half a year ago, Nov '25 - £166.66 and today...

£349.99!!

Scannerman · Jun 9, 2026

From $84 CA to $362 in 6 months.

WATCH OUT FOR RAM PRICES!

This is what some modest DDR4 RAM cost me last spring. 84 Canuckistan clams. And below is what the same kit costs today: OVER 4 TIMES the price. Glad I bought four kits when I did. (Less than 336 bux) It would have cost me $1,448.96 had I waited. As for SSD's I think Steve here has a...

www.elevenforum.com

Sure. It was DDR4. I won't be buying it anymore.

Scannerman · Jun 9, 2026

fgr1990 said:
Hey!

Just looked at some of the first offers provided in this thread - the cheap one. ~Half a year ago, Nov '25 - £166.66 and today...

£349.99!!

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Bear in mind that the manufacturer of this RAM (MICRON) no longer caters to the domestic end user. Hopefully they still honour their warranties.

gunrunnerjohn · Jun 9, 2026

Scannerman said:
Bear in mind that the manufacturer of this RAM (MICRON) no longer caters to the domestic end user. Hopefully they still honour their warranties.

Micron specifically stated in their press release that they would honor the existing warranties.

Scannerman · Jun 9, 2026

gunrunnerjohn said:
Micron specifically stated in their press release that they would honor the existing warranties.

Pardon my skepticism but that sort of statement leaves plenty of play for legalese. In my view Micron has already abandoned we, the plebs, in favour of catering to they, the corps. What a great service I can look forward to if my RAM fails and the kit that cost me $84 CA is conveniently replaced with the pittance of it's inflated monetary remittance! *NOT* I rather doubt that it would be replaced with the actual physical kit (once upon a time standard policy) boasting the retail cost of over 4X that amount. Nor should I suppose that I would be looking at receiving a current cost remittance. Putting it plainly: "Dear sir, we are sorry your RAM broke. Here's 50 bux. You can now go purchase the same RAM for $450. A pleasure doing business."

gunrunnerjohn · Jun 9, 2026

Scannerman said:
Pardon my skepticism but that sort of statement leaves plenty of play for legalese. In my view Micron has already abandoned we, the plebs, in favour of catering to they, the corps. What a great service I can look forward to if my RAM fails and the kit that cost me $84 CA is conveniently replaced with the pittance of it's inflated monetary remittance! *NOT* I rather doubt that it would be replaced with the actual physical kit (once upon a time standard policy) boasting the retail cost of over 4X that amount. Nor should I suppose that I would be looking at receiving a current cost remittance. Putting it plainly: "Dear sir, we are sorry your RAM broke. Here's 50 bux. You can now go purchase the same RAM for $450. A pleasure doing business."

I guess you can believe what you like. Micron is in the business of making money, so when the whole market moved to AI datacenters they logically went that way.

AK6DN · Jun 9, 2026

Scannerman said:
... In my view Micron has already abandoned we, the plebs, in favour of catering to they, the corps...

Oh pleeze. Micron is a corporation, beholden to their shareholders. Not a non profit organization. They go where the market and profit is. Capitalism 101. Same with Intel, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the rest of them. Google began with a "Don't be evil" bylaw. Abandoned in 2018, as being evil proved more profitable.

SIW2 · Jun 9, 2026

XxXxX · Jun 9, 2026

i dont blame him for being a tad upset and i hope he posts the results of the court case.
best of luck Steve ..

Scannerman · Jun 10, 2026

gunrunnerjohn said:
I guess you can believe what you like. Micron is in the business of making money, so when the whole market moved to AI datacenters they logically went that way.

Not exactly a strategic move unless Micron was losing money on the domestic market. Corporate gurus usually don't discount the advantages of a diversified market. Putting all one's eggs in the same basket is predominantly a recipe for failure. No matter how you slice it or dice it, the revenue comes from we the people. There is no guessing involved here. We are all free to believe what we will.

AK6DN said:
Oh pleeze. Micron is a corporation, beholden to their shareholders. Not a non profit organization. They go where the market and profit is. Capitalism 101. Same with Intel, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the rest of them. Google began with a "Don't be evil" bylaw. Abandoned in 2018, as being evil proved more profitable.

I quite agree. The corporate body simply calculates the price of lunch. It's never personal. Law of supply and demand is a universal principle. Eventually the culture will drown in its own excrement. Capitalism cannot thrive without FREE ENTERPRISE. Corporate monopolies are the enemy of healthy capitalism. They kill competition. WWII Germany provides a classic example. It's no great wonder the world is moving toward a cashless economy. At this rate we'll all be needing digital wheel barrels just to purchase a loaf of bread. Nothing personal, you understand.

TraderGary · Jun 10, 2026

Micron is hardly a monopoly. Its current market share is 22%.

Scannerman · Jun 10, 2026

SIW2 said:

Of course, I'm just making things up. It's all in my head because I'm a crazy conspiracy theorist. lol :lmao:

Scannerman · Jun 10, 2026

TraderGary said:
Micron is hardly a monopoly. Its current market share is 22%.

That's a pretty big slice of the pie. Given their record profits this year that % should realistically be seeing 1/4 of the entire market soon enough. I used to be a big fan of Micron (silly me) but I'm from a time when ethics actually mattered. As AK6DN suggested, they've gone over to the dark side. Essentially, there are two sides in the world of tech today: Pro AI and Anti-AI. I don't confuse myself over which side is likely to bring us all under the rule corporate fascism. I would like to say I don't even care because I don't have long to live anyway. Alas, I have grand children. What more can a poor boy do? Our hands are tied.

TraderGary · Jun 10, 2026

None of us get out of this world alive. You're right about ethics. From world leaders on down, ethics no longer seem to matter.

gunrunnerjohn · Jun 10, 2026

Scannerman said:
Of course, I'm just making things up. It's all in my head because I'm a crazy conspiracy theorist. lol

Well... you said it!

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