Lenovo declares a 'new normal' for higher memory pricing in the 2030s, while Microsoft forecasts prices to double again in a year
THE SO WHAT
If RAM pricing really doubles again within a year and stays structurally higher into the 2030s, AI-heavy roadmaps that assumed memory gets cheaper are wrong on day one. Revisit TCO models for both training and inference — memory footprint now belongs alongside FLOPs as a first-order design constraint.
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