• towerful@programming.dev
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    23 hours ago

    No idea.
    New chip foundries take a while to come online, iron out process kinks, and get up to a decent level of reliable supply. Chip manufacturing is extremely precise and fiddly.

    In 5 years? A lot more available & cheaper.

    In the next year? Unlikely, unless the CXMT get really lucky. I think they have been making RAM for a while, but DDR5 (what people want) is the cutting edge.

    I think it’s more likely there will be a collapse of AI (not a full collapse, but certainly a recalibration of expectation & forecasts) which will lead to an easing in demand

    • Yliaster@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      That gives me some hope. Either outcome works for me. Either china making more ram in 5 years (and exporting it, not at insane prices…), and/or the AI bubble popping and lowering prices that way.