discussion Samsung’s DRAM Price Spike Again?

[alexbsr]

Curious what others think about this. I remember in Q3 2025, Samsung already pushed prices up ~60%—now a 32GB DDR5 laptop module can run over $300...

Samsung’s 100% DRAM Price Hike and Why Even Apple Had to Pay Up

Samsung’s 100% DRAM price hike has sparked the 2026 memory crisis. AI-driven HBM production shifts, Apple’s acceptance of doubled pricing, and shrinking DDR4 supply are reshaping the global market. AI data center demand is squeezing supply, pushing PC and smartphone prices sharply higher.

www.buysellram.com

 

[moocow]

Yeah and SK said the shortage will be there until 2030. I sure as hell hope Microsoft sues OpenAI in the ground and trigger a correction.

SK Group chairman says memory chip shortage will last until 2030 — wafer supply trails demand by 20%

SK Hynix's CEO is expected to announce price stabilization measures soon.

www.tomshardware.com

https://www.techspot.com/news/111730-microsoft-threatening-sue-amazon-openai-over-50-billion.html

 

[alexbsr]

shortage will be there until 2030? We will be getting poor...

 

[Shadowarez]

Anyone else hear Samsung is leaving the sata SSD market?

 

[crazyea]

Anyone else hear Samsung is leaving the sata SSD market?

Samsung: Reports That We're Exiting Consumer SSD Market Are 'False'

The market has faced significant volatility as deep-pocketed AI giants snap up components for their massive data centers, leaving consumers fighting for increasingly expensive scraps.

www.pcmag.com

Samsung is killing off SATA SSDs, and your next storage upgrade just got a lot more expensive

Wallets at the ready, please!

www.xda-developers.com

Take your pick.

 

[Shadowarez]

maybe they wanna pull a Micron just waiting till PR Dies down a bit to exit without the hateon Microns getting?

 

[alexbsr]

Anyone else hear Samsung is leaving the sata SSD market?

Maybe consumer market. I do not think they will leave the enterprise SSD market.

 

[Shadowarez]

Maybe consumer market. I do not think they will leave the enterprise SSD market.

Oh yeah they wanna dissolve consumer market in favour of Enterprise $$$$ recently read dram from Samsung supposed to surge 30%

 

[wade7575]

From what Gamer Meld has been saying in a few video's Google has a new algorithm called TurboQuant that supposed to cut memory requirements by 6 times in KV Cache,he talks about it at the 2:55 point in the video.

Hopefully that algorithm works the way it's supposed to and that helps with the memory shortage.

 

[Shadowarez]

From what Gamer Meld has been saying in a few video's Google has a new algorithm called TurboQuant that supposed to cut memory requirements by 6 times in KV Cache,he talks about it at the 2:55 point in the video.

Hopefully that algorithm works the way it's supposed to and that helps with the memory shortage.

Ngreedia Today Posted something similar today saying they can use AI to compress textures from 6.9gb down to like 980mb and speed up shader caching.