If you have been paying attention, you have noticed RAM prices are out of control
Take a look at this order I placed on July 20th, so 4.5 months ago
I paid $168.99 for 64GB of RAM. Four weeks ago, it was $297.99 so almost double
What is it today? Check it out, here is a link to Amazon so you can see the current price https://amzn.to/43irnfi
Today, this is what is listed as the price
That's $537!!! That's more than triple, is that not insane??
So what happened?
On October 1st OpenAI signed two simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of the worlds DRAM supply... the shock wasn’t that OpenAI made a big deal, no, it was that they made two massive deals this big, at the same time, with Samsung and SK Hynix simultaneously! In fact, according to our sources - both companies had no idea how big each other's deal was, nor how close to simultaneous they were. And this secrecy mattered. It mattered a lot.
Had Samsung known SK Hynix was about to commit a similar chunk of supply — or vice-versa — the pricing and terms would have likely been different
Read the whole thing here https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
The good thing for me was that I sold the 32 GB stick I swapped out for the 62 GB for about the same price that I paid for the 32 GB :-)
