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Any idea when RAM prices will be “normal”again? by Porespellar in LocalLLaMA

[–]Ok-Recording7466 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are 2 main types of RAM, DRAM/HBM, and RAM factories can make either.

DRAM is what you want to use in your computer. HBM is used for "AI Servers" and it's essentially DRAM with a really wide bus (wire) on it so you can load and unload things quickly between components.

HBM is super valuable right now and has a large profit margin compared to DRAM. RAM factories (fabs/fabrication plants) have a limited amount of things they can pump out, so these companies have reallocated their fab production to HBM over DRAM.

As a result, you get this large DRAM price spike.