I’m going to be honest and say I don’t know much about hardware.
I want add some more RAM to my PC, but I’m not sure if I should wait for lower prices. I don’t need the RAM urgently, but I’m not sure if prices will go down enough in the future to justify waiting for months or years.
Do any of you expect that there’s going to be substantial drops in RAM prices within the next year?
RAM manufacturers have a history of colluding to drive up prices - look up their anti trust legal trouble in the late 90s / early 2000s. AI is merely a convenient excuse for straight up gouging…
Hard drives are a similar story.
These companies have no incentive to radically increase production - the incentive is for them to squeeze out smaller competitors, and engage in price fixing and keep profits high.