The Price of RAM is Going Up, Up, Up…

Edward Cernera
3 min readApr 22, 2021

Members of the PC building and hardware communities are not strangers to stark price increases and supply shortages of computer parts. The most frustrating and notable case of this in the past few years has been GPU shortages due to demand from crypto miners; Nvidia even going as far to throttle their own GPU’s ability to mine Ethereum.

Now we’re experiencing another notable price increase: RAM.

This price increase is being attributed to a 7.9% increase in laptop manufacturing. If you just Google search “ram price increase”, you’ll find a…

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Edward Cernera

Software Engineer | I write software tutorials because I can’t find them anywhere. Creator of DealPunkk - dealpunkk.com | About Me - cernera.me/edward