That's a short term effect. Long term Wright's law will kick in and ram will end up cheaper as a result of all the demand. It's not like there's a fundamental bottleneck on how much ram we could produce we're running into, just how much we're currently set up to produce.

It's temporary. Sam Altman booked all the supply for a year. Give it time to unwind.

I’m old enough to remember many memory price spikes.

I remember saving up for my first 128MB stick and the next week it was like triple in price.

Do you also remember when eveybody was waiting for cryto to cool off to buy a GPU?