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Industry
PC
shaken again.After GPU prices started to stabilize, now it’s their turn
RAM memory
and SSDs which are experiencing extreme surges due to global component shortages.
The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is said to be the culprit of the supply crisis that is dragging down the entire hardware market.
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CyberPowerPC was one of the first companies to publicly announce its impact.In its official statement, the company confirmed that it will increase the price of the entire system starting December 7, 2025.
“Global memory (RAM) prices have jumped 500 percent, and SSD prices have risen 100 percent,” CyberPowerPC said in the statement, Thursday (27/11), citing
PCGamer
.
Memory demand for AI servers will increase sharply throughout 2025. AI servers require large amounts of memory, both DRAM for short-term operation and NAND for long-term storage.
Production facilities that produce chips for consumer devices are now overwhelmed by data center needs.
According to reports
TrendForce
quoted
TechSpot
, DRAM contract prices in the third quarter of 2025 jumped by 171.8 percent compared to the previous year.
“This increase even exceeded the rate of increase in gold prices,” he wrote
TrendForce
in his report.
Some South Korean manufacturers have reportedly even halted new DDR5 orders until the end of the month as supplies are completely depleted.
The impact of this shortage is felt directly in the retail market.PCPartPicker data shows DDR4 and DDR5 memory prices rising steadily since mid-2025, with sharp spikes since September.RAM modules from Corsair and Crucial on Amazon have also seen significant increases in recent weeks.
The spot DRAM Exchange price also rose drastically in just a few days:
– DDR4 16Gb: from US$28 (Rp. 448,000) to US$37 (Rp. 592,000)
– DDR5 16Gb: from US$20 (Rp. 320,000) to US$33 (Rp. 528,000)
Memory manufacturers are also having difficulty maintaining supplies for large customers.SK Hynix confirmed that all their DRAM, NAND, and even HBM stocks have been sold out until next year.
“Supply is very limited. Some cloud providers are only getting about 70 percent fulfillment,” an internal industry source told the media.
“OEM is even worse, only 30 percent to 40 percent,” he continued.
Even though DDR5 is the newest technology, the price increase for DDR4 is actually sharper.Analysts say the cause is a massive production shift to DDR5, while demand for DDR4 from PC consumers is still high.Supply shortages are inevitable.
Adata, one of the largest memory manufacturers, does not expect this situation to recover any time soon.
“We expect this shortage to last well into 2026. The memory market is very bullish right now,” Adata said.
With GPUs recently dropping in price and now RAM and SSDs rising sharply, gamers and PC builders must be prepared for the cost of building a PC to be much more expensive.Analysts estimate that the wave of component price increases will continue throughout 2025 until early 2026.
This situation makes RAM potentially one of the most expensive components in a PC build for the first time in more than a decade.
Due to this, most laptop manufacturers are considering increasing the selling price of their devices.
Lenovo, for example, has reportedly warned retail stores that prices of its devices will change starting January 2026. This means retail stores will see new suggested retail prices.
This will force consumers to pay more when buying a new PC or laptop.
Other manufacturers, HP and Dell, are also reportedly considering the same thing.According to South Korean media reports
Chosun Ilbo
, HP and Dell are reportedly reconsidering their product lines several weeks before they are showcased at CES 2026.
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