Why Your RAM Is So Expensive: A Viral Thread Points to the AI Memory Squeeze
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-10-05
X user TheMoonMidas (67.7K followers) posted "this is why your RAM is so expensive" with an external link; the post's substance lives in the linked content rather than the text itself.
The post rides on the recent surge in DRAM prices, widely attributed to AI datacenters crowding out consumer memory capacity — a supply-chain story many PC builders are feeling directly.
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