Buy a Ford, GMC, Chebby or Toyota.
Micron’s Crucial brand saying farewell after nearly 30 years
Maybe now, someone will write a computer language that can do a “Hello, World” in less that 100 bytes.
Oh yeah, you could do that 40 years ago...
There are some languages today where you can’t do that in 20 megabytes.
Anyway, with no RAM and all centralized AI, maybe we will go back to dumb (or at least dumber) terminals.
You will have no computing power, and you will be happy!
I have been profiting from this recently by pulling old ram out of retired computers around the house and ebaying them for $$$
I recently doubled my investment in Texas Instruments as they are ramping up their chip manufacturing here in the US. Given that they also pay a nice dividend, it seemed like a smart move. :-)
Well they did come up short against the Panthers.
The RAM Shortage Comes for Us AllDecember 4, 2025Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait.
I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650!
Just in the past week, we found out Raspberry Pi's increasing their single board computer prices. Micron's killing the Crucial brand of RAM and storage devices completely, meaning there's gonna be one fewer consumer memory manufacturer. Samsung can't even buy RAM from themselves to build their own Smartphones, and small vendors like Libre Computer and Mono are seeing RAM prices double, triple, or even worse, and they're not even buying the latest RAM tech!
I think PC builders might be the first crowd to get impacted across the board—just look at these insane graphs from PC Parts Picker, showing RAM prices going from like $30 to $120 for DDR4, or like $150 to five hundred dollars for 64 gigs of DDR5.
More https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all -
