I was supposed to get a device with 64 gigs of RAM later this year. I just got an email telling me that due to the RAM shortage they've cancelled the 64 gig version.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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What I'm surprised hasn't happened yet is RAM ICs being recycled at the retail level. As in, you could bring in an old laptop or phone with 32GB of soldered RAM and it would be desoldered and sold for cash or possibly even soldered into a new device you buy from that retailer.
I wonder how close we are to that business model arriving.
How many 16k 4116 RAM chips can your laptop handle?
4116s are DIPs. I'd de desolder those myself for installation into my Intel 8088 luggable.
I want to be there when you set that up on the table at your next departmental meeting.
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MY CLASSIC SCI-FI SOFT COVER BOOKS!!??!1
Edit: MY CLASSIC CONSOLE COLLECTION?!
The things I love the most don't have RAM, or I already have them 🤷
Going to be fucking hilarious when all the western companies get fucked by China taking over the market they don't seem to care about.
They’re wealthy but absolute fucking morons. The people who fall for the “they have money so they must be smart” are such gullible buffoons. CCP is much more competent than American oligarchs, running what could’ve been great with better policy into the ground.
It's almost as if socialism makes for a better capitalistic system. It's a lot better when the oligarchs fear the government rather than the government fearing the oligarchs.
I agree
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The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
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All that to create Artificial Intelligence that isn’t really intelligent.
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Back in my day, we downloaded ram. 8GB at a time.
Which was used to then download a car.
I believe that's the plan for the future, too. Conglomo A owns all the RAM, but we can rent access.
I hate that this is the plan. Time to burn it all down
Exactly. No loyalty to this system. The only solution is to destroy it.
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I think calling it a RAM shortage is a bit incorrect. It is not like we are running out of raw materials or something else in the supply chain is broken. It's shitty AI companies buying RAM that is not existing yet with money they don't have. Unfortunately there's no good term for that, I guess.
It’s called Imaginary Economics.
It tends to happen right before a capitalist system fails.
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And they told me I was crazy for putting 64 gigs into my machine back in early 2021. I "only" paid about 200 USD
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Go ahead, make a lucrative market for consumer ram, see how fast china figures out how ot start filling that need :)
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My most recent hobby has been an old Suzuki Samurai that I dragged out of the woods a few years ago. It doesn't use much RAM. It doesn't even have fuel injection.
I've also been getting back into archery with my kid.
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I think that making it harder to get a computer and play games is a huge miscalculation. If everyone is distracted by Call of Battle: Dutyfield then you have fewer bored assholes casting about for something to do, and if people can still play Factorio, you don't end up with bored, autistic, organized assholes casting about for something to do.
Good thing AI sucks
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