'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028

Crucial DDR5-5600 2x16GB memory ICs.

If you've tried to buy RAM for your PC at some point in the last year or so, there's a good chance you've noticed a monumental leap in price. Well, with the explosion of AI, it has taken much of the market's supply of memory with it. The good news is that an AMD head is hopeful we will see DDR5 supplies ramp up greatly at some point in the next two years, as long as demand doesn't ramp up at the same rate.

Recently, we had the chance to interview David McAfee, AMD's global vice president and general manager of the client channel business, who talked about the problem. Despite recently releasing an updated DDR4-supporting CPU, he notes that DDR4 production has dropped over the last few years, and manufacturers have largely moved over to producing DDR5 instead.