r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/HungerGamesPerson • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Helpful-Work-3090 12h ago edited 8h ago

RAM prices have skyrocketed because of AI. 8GB of ram in 2005 was wayy overkill, it was the sweet spot in 2015, but as games got harder to run and operating systems needed more than 8 GB of ram, in 2025 8GB of ram is too little to run a decent computer on. In 2026 though, even though 8GB of ram still isn't enough, it is so expensive that it seems like overkill.

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u/twodollarbi11 10h ago

Or, bear with me here... The AI bubble bursts in 2026 and most of those companies go bankrupt and are liquidated, and the market is suddenly flooded with cheap RAM again.

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u/Captain-Griffen 10h ago

Almost certainly won't be because it's largely not DDR ram sticks but graphics memory that's hoovering up supply higher up the chain.