• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      We could always just not, and use whatever RAM we can get. I’d rather have a thriving market with slightly worse RAM than motherboards that require a RAM no one can afford.

      • 4am@lemmy.zip
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        16 hours ago

        DDR2 Prices are up 60% as AI datacenters are slapping together whatever hardware they can get.

        There is NO affordable RAM, and this is by design.

        • mecen@lemmy.ca
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          14 hours ago

          Nope it is for legacy systems which are not upgraded to new standard.

          “Of course, today’s PCs don’t use DDR2, so we’re likely to see the impact of these price increases landing in areas like embedded systems, networking equipment, industrial controllers, automotive electronics, and other long-lived devices that were designed around it and are too costly to requalify on newer memory generations like DDR4 and five.”

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        I think these are false options. If there’s a thriving market for us there’s a thriving market for them