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Jason England

‘The squeeze is real’: I spoke to RAM crisis oracle, Carmen Li, about when this nightmare ends — here’s what she told me

RAM.

For months, buying a PC or upgrading your RAM has felt like a losing battle against the AI industry. Prices skyrocketed, supply vanished and consumers are left footing the bill. There are many, many reasons why this is happening, with a whole lot of data behind it — so I turned to Carmen Li, Founder and CEO of Silicon Data, to get to the bottom of it.

Silicon Data has been tracking the price of GPUs and providing plenty of super accurate market intelligence around them. But as of today, the company is officially launching its RAM pricing indices tracking too — giving us a raw look at the economics of the compute shortage. So far, the GDDR6 price index has jumped around 21% last month alone.

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