Prices Memes

Picture this: You're an IT company trying to upgrade your infrastructure, and RAM prices are skyrocketing faster than your coffee consumption during sprint week. Your company's net worth? Doubled! Not because you're crushing it with innovation or landing massive contracts, but because the memory sticks sitting in your server room are now worth more than the actual servers themselves. It's like discovering your dusty Pokemon cards are suddenly worth a fortune, except way less fun and infinitely more depressing. The market giveth, and the market taketh away... your budget, your sanity, and your ability to justify that "necessary" 128GB upgrade. Companies are literally hoarding RAM like it's digital gold, watching their balance sheets inflate while their ability to actually BUY more RAM deflates. What a time to be alive in the tech industry!

Nothing says "tech industry" quite like watching the same economic disasters play out on repeat. RAM prices spiking 80% in 2021? Check. RAM prices spiking again in 2025? Check. It's like the hardware manufacturers have a playbook and they're not even trying to hide it anymore. The guy flipping through his calendar to find the last time this happened is all of us trying to figure out if we're living in a time loop or if the industry just has zero originality. Spoiler: it's both. Supply chain issues, factory fires, "market conditions"—the excuses change but the price gouging stays the same. Pro tip: if you ever need to predict the future of hardware prices, just look at what happened 4 years ago. It's basically astrology but with more DDR5.