alt Hacker News> RAM prices spiked speculatively, and they're going down for the same reason.
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
Note how flat the black lines are.
Then note how wide the gray bands are. That makes it very easy to cherry-pick a few examples to present as "supporting evidence" that prices are doing whatever you want to believe they are doing.
FWIW, you're misreading that chart. It shows a wild increase in memory prices, no matter how much you try to cherry pick.
An example might help: in July of last year I bought exactly this 2x32 DDR5 kit for $141: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSR14511
It's showing $999 now, which seems about median for similarly-spec'd memory on Amazon. The cheapest slot-and-capacity-compatible equivalent I can find is around $570, even. So 3-5x increase, at minimum.
It's true that that's a high error bar. It's absolutely not true that the trend is ambiguous.
Can you cherry pick me a $141 kit, please? I mean, it's not an abstract question! I'd buy it from you right now if you had it or could get it, in whatever quantity you can source. No joke.