Firstly, this is not due to inflation. The price increase is explicitly (per the article even) due to increased market demand that is causing raised prices.

Secondly, Computing has always been subject to inflation. It cannot escape inflation. You may not notice it , perhaps due to the increase in performance but the cost of parts definitely has risen in the same tiers if you look over a long enough period to avoid pricing amortization

I've seen prices for memory, SSDs, thunderbolt hubs, and thunderbolt/high end USB cables, flatline or get worse over the last 3 or so years.

In general, your dollar buys a _Crazy_ amount of compute...but over the last 30 years or so, RAM has spiked several times (Taiwan plant fire) and suffered from several market driven spikes (DDRx shortages, Apple's crazy pricing structure)

There was the issue of hard disk prices for years after the floods in taiwan in 2011.

GPU prices were horrendes when crypto happened (they migrated into a stable issue but it was still because of crypto).

DDR4 jumped because they started focusing on DDR5 before these news right now.

I could probably find more examples but hey

> time for computers and their components

Seems it has been the opposite for some components like GPUs though for years (well before the AI boom)

It's not inflation tho ? It's just rise in demand.

Memory price fluctuations due to market demand and monetary inflation - the increase in quantity of fiat money, diluting its value - are two separate and unrelated things.

It was always subject to inflationary forces due to money printing like everything else, it was just the one place where natural deflation due to improving technology was temporarily enough to offset it