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Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts (www.tomshardware.com)
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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

...Is it that interchangeable?

TBH I know little of memory fabs and HBM ICs, but I know (say) TSMC can't just switch from a power-optimized process to a high frequency one at the drop of a hat.

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Slightly different part, same process. The bigger bottleneck is packaging - HBM is 3d stacked.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Ah. Yeah. And its on the fab to do that.

I always though it'd be cool for CPUs to switch to packaged RAM, too. Samsung apparently tried to do it with Wide I/O for mobile ARM stuff, but it never caught on.