RAM to be hit with 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out
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A multi-year memory shortage with “meaningful” price hikes means AI and data-heavy workloads will feel cost pressure beyond GPUs. Lock in RAM-heavy configs and server buys early, and revisit architecture choices that assume cheap, abundant memory.
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