3 to 5 times crank in prices. I had RAM to build 10 PC's to sell. I sold the RAM on Ebay and made a 3k dollar profit on 700 dollar investment in 1 year. I know some other builders who had 5x's as much as me and they also stopped building and just resold the parts. I mean, nobody was going to pay 2.5k for an 800 dollar PC. That's insane.
Nearly all the RAM that will be produced through 2027 is already sold. Companies like Apple etc. have gone through their back stocks and are being forced to purchase it at these crazy prices. Everything that does any kind of "computing", even smart watches and phones, cars, smart appliances use it and are going up in price. The price shock that those of us that build PC's and sell them as a side hustle to make a few extra bucks have been feeling for a year (and put most of us out of business) is hitting goods across the board now. Hell, DDR4 RAM, which was the mainstay for years that no longer is produced, is being hoovered up at insane prices on Ebay and other sites. That's how desperate it is. And its not just RAM. There are no longer "disk drives" in these PC's etc. They all have some version of a solid state drive which uses the same tech as RAM at its core and the prices of those have gone up just as much.
Part of the issue is there are really only 2 factories in the world that produce the chips for these stuff. That's what the CHIPS act was for under Biden, to prevent this. While that's great, it takes up to 5 years to bring these chip factories online. They aren't the assembly line factories of the 20th century.
And like anything else don't look for much price relief once this scarcity of these chips lessens. Once the billionaires who own companies that use these chips see that they can sell their product at the inflated price, the parts for it might come back down but the product will stay inflated and their profits will grow. That is unless the entire world economy collapses.
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