Samsung Reportedly Hiking Memory Prices by 60% Amid Surging AI Demand
Abdullah Waseem
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- The AI boom has sent memory prices to a new high.
- Samsung is reportedly set to increase memory prices by a whopping 60%.
- This will also lead other suppliers to increase prices substantially.
The recent AI boom has sent the prices of certain PC parts to a new, ridiculous high. Demand is at its highest, with companies working with their whole workforce to fulfill requirements, and even then, they have orders booked for a year.
Now, after the previous 30% increase, Samsung is rumored to be increasing memory prices by a whopping 60%, which could take them to catastrophic levels. This would especially affect the general PC users using DDR5 memory.
Why it matters: AI demand is surging so high that data centers are ordering DDR5 RAM sticks in bulk, and because the demand is challenging to process, prices are increasing significantly.
According to Reuters, Samsung is expected to announce this historic price increase soon officially. The 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is currently priced at $240, an almost 60% increase from its previous price of around $145.
Even the other capacities have seen a price hike too, with 16GB RAM seeing around a 50% increase. Since Samsung is the industry’s largest DRAM supplier, other companies will likely follow suit.
So, for PC users, a memory upgrade, which used to be among the cheapest upgrades, is set to become much more expensive. The price hikes are already in place, and the situation is expected to worsen.
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