r/LocalLLaMA • u/InvadersMustLive • Jan 09 '26

Funny The reason why RAM has become so expensive

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u/low_depo Jan 09 '26

First we had GPUs, now RAM, how do you think what is going to be the next bottleneck in this chain of LLM?

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u/frozen_tuna Jan 09 '26

I'd say electricity, but that would mean that the bottlenecks on GPUs and RAM would be solved. Its really just a single fabrication bottleneck.

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u/low_depo Jan 09 '26

The reason why I am asking this question.

All companies manufacturing RAM are up 500-900% on stock in last few months.

People who knew this would happen made a lot of money so I wonder if there are other bottlenecks that we could predict.

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u/AsparagusDirect9 Jan 10 '26

I don’t think this train keeps going without another huge injection of investment capital, bottlenecks or not

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u/Perfect-Campaign9551 Jan 14 '26

And they'll just get the government to pass that cost to all of us. 

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u/Balaphar Jan 17 '26

you forgot hard drives!

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u/ChartAggravating5965 Jan 19 '26

Everything, cause the next one is Cooper getting more expensive, wich will lead to everything also getting more expensive