Valve’s Steam Machine price, as well as most memory or graphics processing units on the market, has been greatly affected by the AI gold rush. In a recent interview with Jason Schreier, Valve engineer Yazan Aldehayyat shared even grimmer prospects on the subject.
Research from early July predicted that the trend of rising memory and GPU prices will likely continue to worsen until at least 2027 and won’t stabilize until 2028. More recently, Aldehayyat told Schreier about the extent of the memory crisis and how it affects even a juggernaut like Valve. “Honestly, it’s still getting worse,” he said. “Just in case people are not aware. What people are seeing on retail shelves right now, from our observations, is lagging what we’re seeing from a bulk supply by at least three to six months.”
