> And those companies all realized they can make billions more dollars making RAM just for AI datacenter products, and neglect the rest of the market.
> So they're shutting down their consumer memory lines, and devoting all production to AI.
Okay this was the missing piece for me. I was wondering why AI demand, which should be mostly HBM, would have such an impact on DDR prices, which I’m quite sure are produced on separate lines. I’d appreciate a citation so I could read more.
It's kind of a weird framing. Of course RAM companies are going to sell their limited supply to the highest bidder!
Just like the GPUs.
NVIDIA started allocating most of the wafer capacity for 50k GPU chips. They are a business, its a logical choice.