Memory Prices Up 500% in 12 Months, With 128GB of DDR5 Now Listing at $3,399
Tom's Hardware / Hacker News·low signal
Tom's Hardware reports DRAM pricing has climbed 500% over twelve months and now sits at up to 10x the lowest prices it has ever tracked, with a 128GB DDR5 kit at $3,399. The story drew 106 points and 82 comments on HN, where the discussion centered on local-inference builders being priced out of the large-RAM configurations that made running big open-weights models on consumer hardware viable. Treat the causal attribution with caution — the article body is paywalled and only the headline figures could be independently confirmed.