Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices By 50% For DIY Laptops

Framework Computer raised DDR5 memory prices for its Laptop DIY Editions by 50% due to industry-wide memory shortages. Phoronix reports: Framework Computer is keeping the prior prices for existing pre-orders and also is foregoing any price changes for their pre-built laptops or the Framework Desktop. Framework Computer also lets you order DIY laptops without any memory at all if so desired for re-using existing modules or should you score a deal elsewhere.

Due to their memory pricing said to be more competitive below market rates, they also adjusted their return policy to prevent scalpers from purchasing DIY Edition laptops with memory while then returning just the laptops. The DDR5 must be returned now with DIY laptop order returns. Additional details can be found via the Framework Blog.

What about the long-term?

[blue trane]

If prices were $700 in 2022 and $100 today even if they go to $200 isn't it just a blip on a long-term trend?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Sure. And on a big enough scale, 2008 was just a blip in the economy, and the holocaust was just a blip in the Jewish population. But ya know, most people are smart enough to still recognize they're problems.

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[_merlin]

Even Hitler turns in his grave when you compare him to Trump.

This RAM thing is the AI bubble inflection point

[sg_oneill]

We've all seen for a while how the AI bubble has led to increasingly irrational market behavior. Nvidia priced higher than the entire pharma industry combined , OpenAI just churning through insane amounts of money while ranting incoherently about trillion dollar data centers. Microsoft just rolling out unprecedented data centers, all for a product that the public by and large appears to resesent and business companies struggle to figure out how to extract any sort of productivity out of it.

But its when the

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[TheMiddleRoad]

Search engine, not spellchecker.

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[tlhIngan]

It's also being used to exploit enshittification by "you won't own anything" because all you'll be able to afford for computing devices are basically terminals accessing cloud services. And those cloud services will have the raw power you need.

Re: You only need 2 pencils

[drainbramage]

640k pencils should be enough.

Re: This RAM thing is the AI bubble inflection poi

[blue trane]

What if Greenspan hadn't raised interest rates because he had an irrational fear of new technology?

What if this RAM price blip is like the Thailand floods that got everyone in a tizzy over hard drive prices, but they still ended up going down long-term?

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[burtosis]

I’m hoping this bubble is how I get 2TB of rdimm at 4800 or 5600 slightly used for my server for just $200 in 2028.

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[tlhIngan]

Iâ(TM)m hoping this bubble is how I get 2TB of rdimm at 4800 or 5600 slightly used for my server for just $200 in 2028.

That's how the memory makers got burned the last 2-3 times when they were forced to clear out surplus RAM at discount prices. Which they've said they aren't going to do - they're going to shut down DDR4 production as planned and to make DDR5 as planned. They aren't going to invest in new fabs to meet demand because they don't want to be stuck with stuff they can't sell. They see the bu

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[arglebargle_xiv]

Here's a good example of "AI" applied in practice [linkedin.com]. The Bobs have already identified him as a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

I'm thinking of getting another DGX Spark.

[TheMiddleRoad]

128 GB for 3K for the ASUS version seems almost like a deal now. Then I can run ~200b models locally. I wonder if they'll raise the prices.

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[svx]

Framework desktop with 128GB and Max+ 395 is $2K

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[TheMiddleRoad]

Good luck putting two of those together to run a ~200b model, let alone run them with reasonable speed.

We have at least four years

[rsilvergun]

Of severe RAM and storage shortages. That's because openai has already bought 40% of ram capacity for the next 4 years.

It's possible that the whole thing will collapse before then but I don't think so because AI has the possibility to replace trillions and wages. Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is paying wages.

That's going to keep the 1% pumping all of their money into it and they have about 60 to 70% of the money in the country all to themselves.

While we were getting upset that we

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[0123456]

Imagine if instead of the left spending the last ten years campaigning to ban Christmas and force women to allow men into their bathrooms, they'd been campaigning against the power of billionaires.

If the Woke left didn't exist, billionaires would have had to invent it.

Oh, hang on, in many cases they did.

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[0123456]

Your attitude is precisely why Trump is going to declare himself God-Emperor Of America and send the left to Happy Camps.

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[sinkskinkshrieks]

I can't wait until the bubble pops and they sell all this shit in a firesale. Homelab is gunna love it.

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[Kokuyo]

Only the ability to actually replace wages has yet to emerge. It's always just around the corner... like fusion.

At some point, the CEOs clinging to the idea will get ridiculed by other CEOs.

Now CEOs being removed from reality dumb fucks they are, it could be a while... But the turning point will come unless AI starts indeed making workers actually redundant.

So far, I'm not holding my breath... The people who successfully were made redundant, in my opinion, had a pretty hard time defending the usefulness of

Memory is not that important a cost factor

[gweihir]

For regular PCs that is. Data-center loads or, worse, AI loads, sure.