Smartphones eat 30% of global DRAM and NAND — skipping annual upgrades could ease prices
AlpinDale · x · 2026-09-25
Arguing against ever-rising DRAM/NAND prices, the author proposes stopping annual smartphone manufacturing: yearly churn means 1.2-1.3 billion phones/year, consuming 30% of global DRAM and NAND bit demand (datacenters take 40% of DRAM, 30% of NAND). Most lifecycle impact occurs in manufacturing, phone memory is soldered and hard to reuse, and recycling lags far behind managed enterprise hardware.
Related event: Blogger: Halting Annual Phone Releases Could Ease Memory Price Hikes(2 posts)→
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