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Memory prices tipped to fall as China starts flooding the market with DRAM and NAND chips
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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I'm guessing because China isn't producing the type of RAM they want. Put it this way, when the AI bubble bursts we aren't going to have a load of RAM and GPUs suddenly available, because the AI data centre versions aren't in a format that's useful in consumer tech, or even all the data centre systems. They are optimised towards AI workloads and don't really work in normal computer systems. Equally that means that if the RAM that's been produced isn't in this AI workload optimised format, then the data centres can't use it.
The crime isn't that the AI data centres we're using a bolt of the RAM, it was that the manufacturers were letting them by producing all their RAM in the required format.