As we detailed in data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs”>October, the memory and storage markets were expected to face significant supply constraints. In the months following, DDR5 prices have skyrocketed. Kits that had sold comfortably below $100 months earlier were surging into the hundreds by early December. CyberPowerPC, one of the largest system builders in North America, warned in November that contract DRAM prices had data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/cyberpowerpc-announces-ram-price-hikes-coming-to-the-u-s-and-the-uk-starting-december-7th-prebuilt-proprietor-cites-500-percent-increase-in-memory-cost” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/cyberpowerpc-announces-ram-price-hikes-coming-to-the-u-s-and-the-uk-starting-december-7th-prebuilt-proprietor-cites-500-percent-increase-in-memory-cost”>jumped 500% since early October, while another report indicated that they had data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”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” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”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”>risen 171.8% year over year.
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