/technologies/sensor-technology/b/blog/posts/maker-develops-ram-in-backyard-shedRAM. (Image Credit: PublicDomainPictures/ pixabay ) I&rsquo;d love to upgrade to DDR5 ram someday, I was just looking at those prices. I think we all know, RAM prices are crazy high due to the AI demand soaking up the memory supply. And there may not ...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/sensor-technology/b/blog/posts/maker-develops-ram-in-backyard-shedThu, 30 Apr 2026 20:34:38 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:0f093df3-4589-4d9b-bab2-44610e7b96f8DAB1<p>Crazy RAM prices are not new.</p> <p>Back in 1975, we upgraded our PDP-11 with an additional 8K words of RAM at $1/word.</p> <p>In the 1980&#39;s we were paying $100/1 Mbyte of RAM.</p> <p>These events come every decade as people suddenly can&#39;t get enough memory.</p> <p>I still remember when Microsoft said that 640Kbytes were more than any home user would need.</p> <p>Now you need GIGA words of RAM at a time when the big data centers want TERA words of RAM.</p> <p>It will never end.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=29709&AppID=17&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">