When was the last time RAM was this expensive?

Memory has become insanely expensive over just the past few months. Micron cut production of Crucial, their consumer brand of memory, to focus on data center products at the end of 20251. This was after Micron received massive amounts of taxpayer money from the CHIPS Act2. Crucial’s exit has radically changed the market. We’ve seen big shifts in RAM prices over the past few decades. It has always been volatile, but it’s never been this bad. In this unprecedented time of memory ...