The reported memory-price surge concerns retail PC RAM, with particularly large increases for higher-capacity DDR5 kits. The underlying price analysis estimated that one 64GB DDR5 category rose from an average of $191 in August 2025 to $1,118 in August 2026, approximately 485%.
Its roughly tenfold comparison uses a different baseline: a listed 128GB kit cost $3,399 against a tracked historical low of $329. These figures describe different products and periods. They establish a substantial increase in the reported cost of those PC configurations, without showing that every kind of memory became ten times more expensive.
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inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
