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title: "Memory chip prices have jumped 500% in a year"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/memory-chip-prices-have-jumped-500-in-a-year-731bac
source_name: "Latent Space"
source_url: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-memory-prices-up-500-in-12
published: 2026-08-19T08:44:52.000Z
topics: ["chips"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
---

# Memory chip prices have jumped 500% in a year

*2026-08-19 · Source: [Latent Space](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-memory-prices-up-500-in-12)*

AI-driven demand has pushed memory chip prices up roughly 500% over the past 12 months, according to industry newsletter coverage. The report describes the current memory crunch as reversing Moore's Law-style cost trends back to 2007 levels.

**Why it matters:** This connects to other recent memory-market news, including SK hynix's profit-driven staff bonuses and Samsung's foundry price hikes, as further evidence that memory scarcity, not just compute, is becoming a binding constraint on AI infrastructure buildout. Sustained price spikes at this scale could ripple into the cost of everything from AI servers to consumer electronics.

**Topics:** chips

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