Good news for PC users 👀
RAM prices are finally dropping
After months of price hikes, DDR5 RAM got cheaper in March
• Average drop: ~7%
• Some models dropped up to 19%
Prices are still much higher (~4x) than last year because of high demand (AI chip shortage)
This could just be a temporary price drop, not the final one.
Planning to upgrade your PC or waiting for better prices? 🤔
FINALLY memory chip prices might actually go down.
Google just released TurboQuant. It lets AI use 6x less memory and run 8x faster. Just a software update. No new chips needed.
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron all crashed today because of this news. If AI needs less memory, companies buy fewer chips. Simple.
AI has been making everything expensive for the past 4-5 months. More RAM in laptops. Higher server costs. Even your phone got pricier. This could be the thing that slows all that down.
But one thing to know. TurboQuant only helps when AI is answering your questions. Teaching AI from scratch still needs the same amount of memory as before.
Also Google hasn't shared the actual code yet. Still just a research paper.
So prices may not fall tomorrow. But this is the first real sign that the AI memory madness has a limit 👇