AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
RAM prices have surged due to a confluence of AI-driven data center demand, manufacturing constraints, and alleged anticompetitive behavior by major memory manufacturers like Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung. The shift toward high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI GPUs is consuming wafer capacit
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