30 DDR4 64GB RAM sticks worth $10,000 found in garage – leftovers from a decommissioned server
While RAM prices keep breaking records, ordinary components have turned into an asset nobody used to think twice about. Reddit user VastOption8705 found a stash of DDR4 modules in his own garage that's now worth...
Memory-less DDR5 modules go on sale from $43 – V-Color asks $300 for a kit with one real module
V-Color has finally launched what it teased earlier this year – 1 1 DDR5 kits pairing a real memory stick with a dummy filler module. The second stick has no actual memory chips inside, just...
Engineer in Taiwan hid a panoramic camera in a pack of snacks to steal DRAM technology, but he was given away by a Wi-Fi signal
Trying to smuggle trade secrets out of a locked-down factory zone using an action camera disguised as a bag of snacks failed for the most mundane reason imaginable – the employee forgot to turn off...
RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
18-year-old guy bought 20 DDR5 modules for $1600 to resell in 15 years
An eighteen-year-old buyer purchased twenty Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 sticks for a total of $1,600 and stashed them in a drawer. The plan spans ten to fifteen years, after which he expects to sell the...
