https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-gold
DRAM contract prices surged 171.8% year-over-year as of the third quarter of 2025. The increase now exceeds the rate at which gold prices have climbed. ADATA chairman Chen Li Bai stated that the fourth quarter of 2025 will mark the beginning of a major DRAM bull market.
>He expects severe shortages to materialize in early 2026.
Memory manufacturers had earlied shifted production priorities toward datacenter-focused memory types like RDIMM and HBM. It not home PC compatible. Consumer DDR5 production has declined as a result because partially same production line is used.
>A Corsair Vengeance RGB dual-channel DDR5 kit that sold for $91 dollars in July now costs a $183 dollars on Newegg.
The pricing trend extends to NAND flash and hard drives.
(Hard drives contain 256MB DRAM for cache but such a small amount should be cheap in all circumstances)
NAND price increase is easy to explain though, its same material as DRAM.
Analysts project the increases
>will persist for at least four years,
matching the duration of supply contracts that some companies have signed with Samsung and SK Hynix.
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did you notice RAM prices are fucked
Microsoft are real assholes
20 years ago we were tormented by the god damn Clippy (altough it was possible to disable it in Windows XP explorer and also in XP Office (Office 2002) )
>Microsoft kind of brings Clippy back
At least Clippy wasnt intelligent.
https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy
Microsoft is introducing Mico, a virtual character for Copilot's voice mode. The bouncing orb responds with real-time expressions during conversations and is being turned on by default.
>It is EXACTLY like Clippy altough its an orb and not a paperclip.
The assistant draws on a new memory feature inside Copilot to recall facts about users and their work. Mico will be available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada at launch. And later in Australia and New Zealand.
Microsoft is also adding a Learn Live mode that transforms the character into a Socratic tutor using interactive whiteboards and visual cues. The initiative is part of an effort to give Copilot a permanent identity.
>Microsoft kind of brings Clippy back
At least Clippy wasnt intelligent.
https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy
Microsoft is introducing Mico, a virtual character for Copilot's voice mode. The bouncing orb responds with real-time expressions during conversations and is being turned on by default.
>It is EXACTLY like Clippy altough its an orb and not a paperclip.
The assistant draws on a new memory feature inside Copilot to recall facts about users and their work. Mico will be available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada at launch. And later in Australia and New Zealand.
Microsoft is also adding a Learn Live mode that transforms the character into a Socratic tutor using interactive whiteboards and visual cues. The initiative is part of an effort to give Copilot a permanent identity.