Valve just confirmed the RAMCOIN thesis.
RAM prices have surged as AI companies consume an ever-growing share of global memory supply. Every chatbot, GPU cluster, data center, and frontier model is hungry for more memory—and the supply shock is now spreading across the entire technology industry.
Manufacturers such as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are prioritizing high-bandwidth memory for AI infrastructure, leaving consumer hardware manufacturers competing for increasingly limited supply. RAM and SSD prices remain elevated, product costs are rising, and lower-cost brands are delaying new launches altogether.
The memory supercycle is real.
And now it has a ticker: $RAM.
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But RAMCOIN goes one step further.
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Hold $RAM.
Earn @MicronTech.
AI needs compute.
Compute needs memory.
Memory needs Micron.
The internet noticed the shortage.
So we minted it.
Valve says the global memory shortage isn’t improving, warning that RAM and SSD prices are likely to keep rising.
“There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, honestly. It’s still getting worse.”
Valve says memory manufacturers are focusing on high-end chips for AI servers, leaving less supply for consumer hardware.
“Things that were commodity items a year or two ago… now you have to negotiate really hard just to secure a few thousand. And there are so many more people in line in front of you.”
Valve sees no improvement anytime soon.
It's so frustrating how unaffordable PCs are now with the price of ram skyrocketing due to AI it's genuinely disheartening as someone who's played PC my whole life and it's now suddenly so out of reach financially for anything with half decent specs🥺