Memory prices keep climbing even as AI stocks crash — Reddit puzzles over why
TopNotchRocks · reddit · 2026-11-06
A Redditor shares PCPartPicker's memory price trend chart, confused that RAM prices keep rising even as AI stock valuations crash, and asks what's really going on. The standard explanation: AI datacenter demand for HBM/DRAM is soaking up fab capacity, so consumer memory supply stays tight and prices keep climbing regardless of short-term AI stock swings.
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